Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] away [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olivia , who likes her sleep , soon developed a great loathing for our morning visitors , but all her efforts to drive them away and apart had little success , and spectacularly failed to calm the passions of the energetically copulating birds . |
| 2 | And all we say is that we pay extra commission if we send you away but it is against er against our principle and even er economics to send people that far away . |
| 3 | For a moment that bordered on eternity , Fran stared at the throbbing centre of her hand , then snatched it away and scrambled from the car , uncaring what interpretation he put on her haste . |
| 4 | If they stay silent , their dialects will never give them away and they can be whoever they like . ’ |
| 5 | There are times when you could send me away and they 'd say I was certifiable . |
| 6 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |
| 7 | I 'll knock out all my polish here and put them away and knock that off . |
| 8 | rack for fucking plates , so I put them away and the best way to do it is if sit at the table , you wash and I 'll dry or I 'll dr you er dry and I 'll wash , well what |
| 9 | ‘ Shall I send them away or can you sleep through that ? ’ |
| 10 | She grappled with him as he pressed against her , pushing him away and urging him on . |
| 11 | Yussuf tried to urge her away but she resisted his efforts . |
| 12 | When I come to paint , I like to look at the drawing ; then I put it away and do n't look at it again , because I do n't want even the drawing to influence too much the progress of the painting . |
| 13 | If it 's doom and gloom for a long time , I put it away and forget about it . |
| 14 | Put it away and then |
| 15 | Plot it away and draw the graph , but it 's you know |
| 16 | Maybe he caught some virus from a jungle or a desert somewhere , and it infected his brain and slowly ate it away and he got hallucinations and tremblings and gnashings of teeth till eventually he fell into a coma and was flown home . |
| 17 | She lifted it away and put it on Lowell 's knee . |
| 18 | She made no attempt to wipe them away and one by one they dripped from her nose and chin on to the hands that lay folded in her lap . |
| 19 | McLeish threw it away and methodically sorted his notes ; he was not going near a top firm of solicitors without a very careful list of questions , and his first port of call that morning was to be Huttons , who had been Angela Morgan 's solicitors . |
| 20 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |
| 21 | He threw it away and pulled out the Bible , which he had stuffed superstitiously into his shirt to protect his ribs … |
| 22 | She crumpled it , threw it away and went to bed . |
| 23 | He threw it away and , transferring his sword to the left hand , felt at his belt with the right and pulled out the big Ulfberht axe . |
| 24 | Sometimes give it away and say right I 'll teach you how to do this , when they keep coming back and saying what wh you 're running out of time and you think give it you can it 's quite common . |
| 25 | Still the point was well made , I mean not sounding like you can sort of freeze an article to , not compromise the sort of committee , I mean , it is , dead if you give it away and you would n't consider pressure groups , they 'll pick up their report and their copies anywhere , and take bits out and quote you , I mean , I mean I know I 'm in this , I like to distort , like them to know our official disposition before it 's dead . |
| 26 | We said he was stronger than he looked , but the vet turned us away and told us to bring him back when he was bigger . |
| 27 | But it was too late ; large tears rolled down her cheeks and , no matter how swiftly she swiped them away and pretended they were n't there , they just kept on coming . |
| 28 | Thomson gets it away and Forest exert pressure again . |
| 29 | Unload it , pack it away and piss off . ’ |
| 30 | And you 're sat there and you 're like kicking it away and it goes worse . |