Example sentences of "move away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top . |
| 2 | So these people moved away into the Pennine valleys . |
| 3 | He moved away into the night and Hari watched until he had disappeared from sight , then she closed the door . |
| 4 | Then it moved away into the wood . |
| 5 | Sally did n't want another long day on the hill , so wished me well and watched for an hour as my headtorch beam got smaller and more erratic as I moved away across the glacier , interrogating the ice . |
| 6 | As he moved away past the fifteen hundredweight and on down the line , his receding words of assurance were interrupted by warning shouts . |
| 7 | Some members of the crowd moved away towards the bar between contests . |
| 8 | And er we moved away to the side of the platform to get out from underneath whatever had happened and had a look around . |
| 9 | A Mr Ross from Leominster , who owned a shoe shop in Bishop 's Castle , was a keen cine photographer and when he came to Bishop 's Castle ( by train ) he was in the habit of taking film of the railway , but the family moved away to the South Coast , after selling the business , and to date we have not been able to trace the family or film . |
| 10 | ‘ Very well , ’ Mobuto replied after a moment 's thought then moved away with the Chief of Protocol , heading towards one of the limousines . |
| 11 | So neither television nor the parties moved closer to the electorate on unemployment : they moved away from the electorate , increasingly avoiding an issue the public wanted to discuss . |
| 12 | When they moved away from the fire to the outer rooms the steady constant drip of rain from the eaves in the silence was like peace falling . |
| 13 | It dashed against the windows , washing off dust in a great cleansing stream , and Wexford moved away from the glass . |
| 14 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |
| 15 | ANDREW put down his binoculars and moved away from the grey lace that hung from the curve of the curtain-wire in front of his window . |
| 16 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 17 | As the car moved away from the Elizabethan pile Marler glanced in his wing mirror . |
| 18 | She now moved away from the case and looked at a list attached , low down , on the wall to the side of the smokers ' requisites demonstration case . |
| 19 | I moved away from the bus post , they needed the support more than I did . |
| 20 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
| 21 | It was some kind of air duct , the hot , dry wind pushing into their faces as they moved away from the murderous thundering noise . |
| 22 | Silently , Kirov moved away from the table and began to walk slowly down the street . |
| 23 | It is a geological fault , the result of a convulsion of nature in ages past when the north and north-west of Scotland moved away from the rest of the country , leaving a clear divide , straight as an arrow and sliced as though by a giant cleaver , across the breadth of Scotland from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 24 | It was hard for the Major to see the little procession that moved away from the Administration block towards the heart of the camp , but he fancied he could still make out one dark head amongst the hazing image of the retreating column . |
| 25 | Craig watched as Emily , stiff backed , moved away from the grave . |
| 26 | She moved away from the mirror and walked slowly to the door , she would eat her supper , make pleasant conversation with her landlady and then return to her room . |
| 27 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
| 28 | Joseph moved away from the window . |
| 29 | Moving as quietly as possible on the gravel , Patrick moved away from the kitchen , and then continued on until he came level with the basement windows . |
| 30 | The woman smiled , and moved away from the window . |