Example sentences of "away [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 2 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 3 | ( The same river makes its exit from the lake some 30 miles away to flow through Luzern on its way north ) . |
| 4 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 5 | You ran away to go on the stage |
| 6 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 7 | What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters . |
| 8 | The two men , who were completely sober despite their time in the bar , moved away to stand against the cracked plaster walls of the buildings to either side of the main road , glancing quickly around the corners to check for traffic . |
| 9 | ‘ People travelled from far away to come to him to have their hair cut . |
| 10 | Nana 's form was to skip the next two hundred years of Jamaican history and tell Martha how her husband had gone away to work in Panama and never come back , and how Martha 's own father was in America now . |
| 11 | This woman has come from far away to write about your people . |
| 12 | But he ignored her , rushing away to disappear among the trees . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes ! ’ he said , the word jerked out of him furiously , and twisted away to hide from the malicious smile he dreaded . |
| 14 | Equally , The Smiths counterparts in the rock field , say , U2 may make fine music but they shy away to hide behind subtleties of abstract lyricism . |
| 15 | The Humbug ( Dascyllus aruanus ) is a good example and although not achieving the tactile relationship of the clowns , is usually found shoaling close to the anemone 's tentacles , darting away to hide in crevices around the anemone when approached . |
| 16 | They played a lively game of Hide ‘ N ’ Seek , where the little hedgehog would crawl away to hide in the weeds or under pile of leaves and the big beast would seek her out and bark loudly when he found her . |
| 17 | Instead of scurrying away to hide in the weeds , the ducks came back . |
| 18 | Each babe emerges folded in two , head to tail , the size of a small tea-leaf , and swims away to hide in the leaves of the water plants . |
| 19 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
| 20 | Two were out of contact because of physical distance : the fate of a Berwickshire couple who had emigrated to Australia was ‘ a mystery ’ , while even within the same county a Norfolk farm labourer 's parents were too far away to visit on foot , so the family ‘ hardly ever saw them . ’ |
| 21 | The apple crumbled away to dust in his hand . |
| 22 | And then the telephone rang on the little table beside them , and as Miguel rolled away to reach for it Shelley hastily rolled in the opposite direction , and sat on the edge of the bed with her back to him , smoothing back her hair and getting her breath back . |
| 23 | I asked Jeanne to find as many friends as possible to accompany her on walks with Moby , and to give them control of the lead and take him away to explore without her if they felt confident . |
| 24 | But Becky often skipped away to listen at the back . |
| 25 | They always chose an aisle seat so that Sweetheart could slip away to talk to her friends without disturbing anyone . |
| 26 | Kegan says they 're driving him mad already and he wants me there right away to talk to some bloody newspaper people . |
| 27 | Disappointed by her dull response , he moved away to talk to Muriella . |
| 28 | Claudia was talking to Philip ; she wished he was beside her , but after the first ten minutes , he 'd been taken away to talk to someone else . |
| 29 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 30 | She moved away to talk to Eustace Tolby who had come with his wife , an elegant Asian woman . |