Example sentences of "then [vb past] away [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Walter Map this was his mother 's teaching : he should keep aspirants waiting in hope , she said , deliberately spinning out their affairs , for an unruly hawk , if meat is held out to it and then snatched away or hid , will become keener and more inclined to be attentive and obedient . |
| 2 | Toby ( 4.5 ) had been playing with blocks , but then wandered away and the blocks were put away by two other boys , who spent a long time carefully fitting the different sizes of blocks into the two boxes . |
| 3 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 4 | He forced himself to bow politely , and then turned away and began to descend the stairs . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't if the senator demands you , ’ Ellen said stubbornly , then turned away as Cutwater 's courtesy taxi arrived from the airport in a salvo of backfires and black smoke . |
| 6 | Sharpe caught her eye for a second , then turned away as Lucille ran to him . |
| 7 | He kept pulling on the stick , then swung away and made to carry it off . |
| 8 | As she watched , holding her breath , it reared up , threshed at the air with its forelegs , and then leapt away and was lost to her sight beyond a rise . |
| 9 | I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side . |
| 10 | He then broke away as Lambert was also firing at this aircraft , and watched it crash into the sea . |
| 11 | I then er , we then broke away and went up to the er , I suppose it 's the , I do n't know what part of the , but it 's the Dales , that 's where I moved to then and then to because my dad could n't , getting on in years , he could n't take the hills up and then from I got married and we moved into this address here and then that was the day after war was declared that I got married . |
| 12 | He buried it again and then went away and realised enough capital to buy the field so that he could claim the treasure . |
| 13 | The room hummed with an expectant murmur which heightened and then died away when Commander Brian Spittals , followed by Blanche and the head of the Press Bureau , strode out on to the platform . |
| 14 | Wolff seemed on the point of saying something ; he hesitated , looked at her , then looked away and breathed out . |
| 15 | ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling . |
| 16 | He drew a harsh breath , muttered something under his breath , then looked away and released her , getting off the bed in those dark blue trousers , his chest bare , thrusting his hands into his pockets , his back to her while she sat up and fumbled to rearrange her clothes , tears falling silently over her cheeks . |
| 17 | I gave him two or three minutes to disappear , then drifted away as the last hearse disappeared . |
| 18 | Delaney took out the nearest , then rolled away and sought new cover . |