Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] away from [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 2 | I did n't think it had ignited and I was walking away from it when all of a sudden I heard all this crackling and banging . |
| 3 | You put that in his deed but the way that most of them do it through foxing through , through er hunting , you 're taking away from them . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew you were drifting away from me . |
| 5 | She was facing away from him , down the alley . |
| 6 | She was flying to her man , or maybe she was flying away from him , to another one . |
| 7 | For a second I glimpsed her wet , frightened face : then she was hurtling away from me , bouncing over the water like a rag doll , her arms and legs flailing . |
| 8 | He would recognise that she was running away from him . |
| 9 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 10 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 11 | Abruptly she looked in another direction — somehow , she felt unsteady , as if everything was getting away from her ! |
| 12 | Observations of distant galaxies indicate that they are moving away from us : The universe is expanding . |
| 13 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 14 | They were pulling away from her . |
| 15 | ‘ Dick , ’ interrupted Gedanken , ‘ Did you say they were going away from us ? ’ |
| 16 | Well be seems to have understood a little bit more about life , by , it 's slipping away from him . |
| 17 | Too far and it 's going away from us … |
| 18 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 19 | ‘ He is going away from you , ’ Wyn said quietly . |
| 20 | ‘ When Dermot McNicholl put the ball through to me it was running away from me . |
| 21 | She opened her mouth to demand an explanation , but he was swinging away from her , heading for the sitting-room . |
| 22 | As the days passed it became clear to Ned 's family that he was drifting away from them and his strange affair with the stone was fast turning into a deep and meaningful relationship ! |
| 23 | Then suddenly , inexplicably , he was drawing away from her . |
| 24 | She heard the sharp hiss of his breath , then once again he was drawing away from her . |
| 25 | He was driving away from me grounds of Hauser 's estate when he heard a different engine sound . |
| 26 | Then he was striding away from her , his boots echoing on the wooden boards as he made for the stairs . |
| 27 | He was turning away from her to go to the telephone . |