Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weakly she tried to push him away , her face strained in the dim glow from the shaded wall lights , terrified as much by her own emotions as by his very physical presence . |
| 2 | She tried to push him away , but she might just as well have tried to move the Campanile . |
| 3 | She tried to thrust him away ; that appalling woman through the wall would hear everything they did . |
| 4 | Grabbing Leo 's arm , she tried to drag him away . |
| 5 | As she moved to push him away , he stepped with her into the lift , pressed the button for her floor , and , as the lift doors closed , he pulled her closer and aimed a kiss at her mouth . |
| 6 | She 'd stowed it away there , his father had found it . |
| 7 | She 'd snatched them away as if they were in danger , and afterwards burst into Quentin 's study to have her scene . |
| 8 | She 'd snatched it away , and it fell on the kitchen floor , where blood had trickled from its beak . |
| 9 | ‘ She paid to send me away on a racing car school course at Magny-Cours in France , ’ admitted Damon . |
| 10 | A suspicion kept niggling at the back of her mind , but she kept pushing it away as more than she could deal with . |
| 11 | Putting her hands on his shoulders , she meant to push him away indignantly , but felt the hard , supple warmth of muscle beneath her fingers , and tightened her hands involuntarily , convulsively clinging to him instead of rejecting him . |
| 12 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 13 | He had tried to hold her , comfort her , but she had pushed him away . |
| 14 | And she had sent him away . |
| 15 | She had sent him away . |
| 16 | She had sent him away . |
| 17 | And the fact that she had sent him away before he 'd had time to betray her was cold comfort , set against the enormity of that loss . |
| 18 | Though her temper had run away with her , and she had sent him away , she could not deny that the grim coldness of his departure had left a barren place in her heart . |
| 19 | Miguelito the magnificent was hers for the taking , and she had sent him away , frills and all . |
| 20 | She was obviously growing so attacked to her little girl and then she had to give her away . ’ |
| 21 | All she knew of self and love she knew through Fenna , and now she had to send him away . |
| 22 | She had to get them away from the rocks that edged the shore like jagged teeth . |
| 23 | Only when that was done , and she had put them away out of sight , did she begin to wonder what her next move would be . |
| 24 | And all to be set to her account , for she had driven him away ! |
| 25 | " Oh , David , " she said pushing him away as if he were a small boy , which indeed he seemed . |
| 26 | If she wanted to give it away for nothing then she would . |
| 27 | His arms went around her ; she wanted to push him away , but his skin , naked and warm beneath the open shirt , brushed hers and she felt suddenly boneless . |
| 28 | She attempted to push him away , and then , as his wonderful mouth gentled over hers , she knew that to push him away was not what she wanted either . |