Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pers pn] away " in BNC.
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1 | and then we could wind it away through go through the be that bedroom into your one |
2 | He would baffle and intrigue her , just as he had done Cassie on their first meeting ; and Cassie could think of no way in which she could explain him away . |
3 | Fine if you could chop it away from feeling and treat it as a mere sensation . |
4 | ‘ You could send her away to a school . ’ |
5 | There are times when you could send me away and they 'd say I was certifiable . |
6 | Mick Ronson , Woody Woodmansey and myself would be making backing tracks , having got the brief from David — it was E chord for 16 bars then an A chord for 4 bars and a B chord for 2 bars — and we were just banging out these backing tracks , and David would come into the studio , if we could tear him away from Angela for long enough and say whether he liked it or not . |
7 | As a unique event , Karen could file it away in her snapshot album as one of the interesting things that had happened during her holiday in France . |
8 | ‘ If you invite me nothing could keep me away . ’ |
9 | We used to mark her up special on the calendar ; and we took care to make a right good job of her : we took an extra lot of trouble with her shoes so we could keep her away as long as we could . |
10 | ‘ He looks like ye could blow him away tae , ’ Pol said . |
11 | Frail — you could blow him away , thought Alice . |
12 | Yeremi recognized plasma cannons , macro-cannons , defence lasers — artillery which could melt fully armoured Marines , which could blow them away in scraps like chaff . |
13 | She looks as if a wind could blow her away . " |
14 | He maintained that Washington feared that the gradual shift of the states of the region into the political orbit of the Non-Aligned Movement could draw them away from the system of ‘ inter-American treaties of mutual assistance ’ . |
15 | She stopped dead , unable to prise out the words which could jeopardise the life that she and Thomas shared , which could wreck the child 's emotional stability she had worked so hard to ensure , which could take him away . |
16 | Or you could do , you could take them away separately . |
17 | She senses what he 's after : she ca n't exactly explain it , but she knows that he could take her away . |
18 | He could take her away , I thought , he could just do that , he has such power to hurt me , this little furry creature who has n't even noticed that I 've given up the weed . |
19 | The jack plug was soldered on — which meant you could n't pull the lead out , you had to wrap the plug and lead around the neck before you could put it away . |
20 | ‘ I hope you 're not going to be too bored — ’ he stopped , hand on the door ‘ — though perhaps I could drive you away by boredom ? ’ |
21 | ‘ If we could get him away then it would help us get the situation stabilised . |
22 | Hoeness has recently made discreet enquiries about Robins , in action against Tottenham today , and believes he could prise him away from Carrow Road , where he is on a four-year contract , providing the terms were right . |
23 | Our free-entry competition could whisk you away from it all on the romantic trip of a lifetime . |