Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hand shot out to grasp his arm as he made to move away . |
| 2 | After discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , he agreed to stay away rather than run the risk of provoking incidents on the terraces . |
| 3 | Derek Green says it was much harder than last year … the streams were like rivers and he got swept away once |
| 4 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 5 | Well he got called away . |
| 6 | Supposing he got called away from his post would there be somebody ready to take his place ? |
| 7 | But the third time he tried to drive away from them in his Ford Escort down a public footpath he was followed and caught . |
| 8 | He tried to move away , but Louisa clung to his arm , saying , ‘ No , wait , Marcus . |
| 9 | There was a distant whistle from behind Chernayev 's teeth as if he tried to blow away the wind that settled on him . |
| 10 | On September 22nd , 1870 , Flaubert bought himself a revolver ; at Croisset , he drilled his ragged collection of men in expectation of a Prussian advance ; he took them out on night patrols ; he told them to shoot him if he tried to run away . |
| 11 | He tried to twist away , but instead his horse plunged back onto its forefeet and threw the Lieutenant 's weight fast forward . |
| 12 | It snatched at Cardiff and he tried to twist away from it , pain like fire stabbing into his chest where the thing had him gripped with the other claw . |
| 13 | Already the Tans were running towards him , guns being waved menacingly in case he tried to get away . |
| 14 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 15 | He describes a skylark 's nest which he found tucked away in a hoof print : ‘ Behind a clod/ how snug the nest/ is in a horse 's footing fixed/ of twitch and stubbles roughly dressed/ with roots and horsehair intermixed . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked . |
| 17 | Erm , he has stripped away from these true selves everything that we normally think of as institute of , of a self . |
| 18 | Only when he has run away or been hurt and stopped , can you allow that determination , that anger , to drain away . |
| 19 | He ca n't be dead — he has run away or is hiding somewhere . |
| 20 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 21 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 22 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 23 | In his most recent work , he has moved away from elaborate vessels and on to rough-textured jigsaw-like pieces — the ceramicist 's equivalent of collage . |
| 24 | This is a seven-headed coiled serpent facing the hero , who may be horned , holding aloft two heads he has cut away ( fig. 14.29 ) . |
| 25 | He has locked away $115 billion in private savings and taxed wealth to the hilt . |
| 26 | Remarkably , Mr McGovern has never had to sell equity in his firm to outside investors , though he has given away nearly 30% to motivate employees . |
| 27 | She said : ‘ He has got away with less than two years in prison . |
| 28 | Mrs Child , 43 , of Wakefield , said : ‘ Nicola has lost 75 per cent of her sight in the eye and he has got away with it . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not sure how he has got away with it . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's special , Master Venables , because he 's a murderer , a felon who has stolen over two hundred pounds of his master 's monies , and it looks as if he has got away scot free ! ’ |