Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many elderly people do this each year if it is not suitable for them to go away with their family , and they understand the need those who are caring for them have for a complete break . |
| 2 | Shiona could n't have agreed more , but her tone was taunting as she told him , ‘ What a pity you 'll have to wait until tomorrow to see me led away in chains . ’ |
| 3 | To George Sand , however , he seems ‘ gentle as a lamb ’ ( 1866 ) — which he denies ( 1869 ) — and the pair of them chatter away like magpies ( 1866 ) ; ten years later , at her funeral , he weeps like a calf ( 1876 ) . |
| 4 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 5 | There 's the kids , too — I want them got away from him . |
| 6 | Father keeps them hidden away in a room off his library . ’ |
| 7 | a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague . |
| 8 | Take that stool and go inside to the cloakroom and sit there until you 're called by me to come away from it . ’ |
| 9 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 10 | But the odds are on them walking away with their own business — a team business — at the end of it , ’ said Ms Liddell . |
| 11 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 12 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 13 | So I back away from them . |
| 14 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 15 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 16 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 17 | I crept away from Shadwell . |
| 18 | Because I lived away from men for so long , part of me is now permanently closed to them . |
| 19 | Ca n't I stay away from Pepe 's for once ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years . |
| 21 | I do n't know how I got away with it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So I got away with that all right . |
| 23 | ‘ I got away with far too much . |
| 24 | I think I got away with quite a lot , considering . |
| 25 | Providence , destiny — although I would like to treat destiny with a very small " d " in my case — inevitably played their parts but nevertheless I got away with it , and my crew got away with it . |
| 26 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 27 | I am always in my very best spirits , for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug ; and , what is more , I have become fatter . |
| 28 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been leading the life of Riley since I got away from the place . |
| 30 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |