Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 2 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 3 | ‘ But one moment you hold me , the next you push me away . ’ |
| 4 | push me away . |
| 5 | ‘ You can frame them , or you can throw them away . ’ |
| 6 | BADGES have long been a cheap , effective way of making a statement — whether it 's Ban The Bomb or I Love Madonna — but do n't throw them away when your fervour wanes . |
| 7 | I spend a lot of time on the bathroom scales — too much time — I really should throw them away ! |
| 8 | If you have anywhere to overwinter the geraniums from your boxes ( or pelargoniums , to give them their proper name ) , do n't just throw them away . |
| 9 | Do they just throw them away ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But why should he keep the scissors rather than throw them away ? ’ |
| 11 | She 'd probably throw them away . |
| 12 | I do n't know why we do n't throw them away ; perhaps we are charting our progress . |
| 13 | So do n't throw them away colleagues , hand them to any delegate from the Northern Region . |
| 14 | I just , I do n't know , , gon na throw them away really . |
| 15 | Oh so I can throw them away can I ? |
| 16 | Do you often throw them away then ? |
| 17 | If I , I 'll throw them away ! |
| 18 | If I 've got four of something can I throw them away now ? |
| 19 | Aha , I 'll throw them away most of time , it 's quite nice are n't they really ? |
| 20 | Why do n't they just throw them away ! |
| 21 | ‘ People bring dogs to Mrs Cass and she never turns them away . ’ |
| 22 | It turns them away from looser , unstructured organizations . |
| 23 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 24 | The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables . |
| 25 | He tossed her shorts away , then sat up and looked at her with desire-darkened eyes as he tugged down the zip on his own shorts and flung them away . |
| 26 | Because it had features so distracting and so inexplicable that no-one could simply explain them away ? |
| 27 | He wades in among the pair of them , grabs their studded leather collars and starts yanking them away . |
| 28 | My mother 's stories also led me away from home . |
| 29 | I just ca n't get off the scale Moby and I swapped fond farewells as She-She led me away . |
| 30 | She had a longish , plain face with a straight nose and almost no eyebrows ; she must have plucked them away in order to repaint them in higher up . |