Example sentences of "away and [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordan later discovered that two of his party had managed to get away and had made for the rendezvous point which the group aiming for Martuba was to use . |
| 2 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 3 | At the last moment , it veered away and came to halt by a vent . |
| 4 | As you looked at her more and more insects swarmed on to her ; then , as the weight grew too much for the insects underneath to cling to her smooth skin , great black cakes of them flaked away and fell fizzing to the ground . |
| 5 | He looked away and began twiddling with the curtain cord . |
| 6 | Lucenzo moved away and began to complain to the catering manager , breaking into the man 's spirited singing of an Italian opera . |
| 7 | As his boss turned away and began to stride down the corridor , Dexter noticed a wary look slither into Pargeter 's eyes . |
| 8 | He pulled away and began to wander towards the stairs . |
| 9 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 10 | When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days . |
| 11 | When she hastily drew away and tried to wriggle off the bed he caught her wrist and pulled her back . |
| 12 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 13 | Blanche rolled away and started to run towards the front door . |
| 14 | ’ He turned away and started trudging through the wet grass in the direction Lesley-Jane had specified . |