Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light-sensitive cells ( " photocells " ) are not the first thing the light hits , but they are buried inside and facing away from the light . |
| 2 | ‘ Then the police came along and told us we should stay inside and keep away from the windows . |
| 3 | She squeezed his shoulder comfortingly and stepped away as Eddie reappeared with a cloth wrapped bundle . |
| 4 | Then she laughed out loud and turned away to find her cigarettes . |
| 5 | Then he pushed her off , roughly , almost brutally and moved away from her . |
| 6 | The love affair gave him new life , he looked better , drank less and stayed away from the cafés . |
| 7 | She pressed her lips together and looked away . |
| 8 | Katherine shuffled her papers together and turned away . |
| 9 | Now is the time for the Cherry and Whites to pull together and push away from the bottom of the first division . |
| 10 | ‘ Go away and stay away from me . ’ |
| 11 | Those are the people who commit most car crime and who take away and drive away most motor vehicles . |
| 12 | below which all roads sped away and led away — |
| 13 | And he puts his thing away and goes away . |
| 14 | on ends , so he took the two ends off , cleaned the rails and he was sat on settee watching telly rubbing away and rubbing away and I says hey you gon na put them ends back on ? |
| 15 | They hung him to the hook anyway and moved away . |
| 16 | Awkwardly and delicately , as if her own arms and hands were unfamiliar tools , she gathered flowerpots on a cleared area of ledge , took a bucket outside and poured away the green standing slime . |
| 17 | Yet according to you it 's supposed to be dead already and wasting away — ‘ |
| 18 | She sighed a little and turned away . |
| 19 | Furious at being treated as if she were a brainless bimbo , she raised her eyebrows , giving him back such a measured look that he actually coloured a little and moved away . |
| 20 | ‘ We defended badly and threw away a game we should have won 3–0 , ’ he said angrily . |
| 21 | ‘ Stalingrad will never fall , ’ I repeated slowly and walked away . |
| 22 | The Prince swallowed nervously and looked away . |
| 23 | I had a brief view of flailing arms and flying pans followed by a prolonged metallic clatter , then the little man reappeared like a projectile , turned right and sped away from me up the street . |
| 24 | They had talked politely and gone away without noticing anything . |
| 25 | Then the ball would drop quickly and spin away . |
| 26 | Killion glanced quickly and looked away . |
| 27 | He put out his hand , as though he would touch her again , then turned quickly and walked away . |
| 28 | I thought how the baby would look if it were born now , just a red dead morsel to be wrapped up quickly and thrown away , something disgusting and of no significance , not even fit to be buried as a human being . |
| 29 | While the immediate concern was naturally to halt production and ensure the process was clean , ‘ the company was very fortunate that its competitors were unable during the disruption to step up their own production rapidly and strip away its market share . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll just see if it 's convenient , ’ she said stiffly and turned away quickly , leaving them on the doorstep . |