Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fumed and bittered away while my mother finished her coffee and made concerned remarks about how thin and pale I was looking . |
| 2 | She winced and turned away . |
| 3 | Getting the thorn out was not easy , for the foot had become so tender that Pipkin winced and pulled away even from Hazel 's tongue . |
| 4 | Anna rose and walked away , very slowly and stiffly — Constanza tried to follow her but a waiter held her up with the bill . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll take a powder , ’ said Natasha and , picking up what remained of her piece , rose and strolled away . |
| 6 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 7 | As he dropped and kicked away the chair the bell rang once . |
| 8 | He braked in the slow corners , where I could not overtake , then on the straight , he accelerated and drove away , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The um leatherworker came and took away the body very early one morning . |
| 10 | Last week they came and took away my colour TV . |
| 11 | The noise of the train receded and went away . |
| 12 | I am who I am , right now , this minute , and if you ca n't see who that person is — then to hell with you ! ’ she renounced and hobbled away to the nearest stool . |
| 13 | Then she dried and put away knives , and spoons , also . |
| 14 | He saluted and rode away . |
| 15 | Alexei saluted and turned away . |
| 16 | But Blattern muttered and walked away and there were no letters that morning . |
| 17 | Marion whispered and turned away because she could n't bear to be there when something died , when all the love that she had bottled up inside herself evaporated like liquid left out in the sun . |
| 18 | He rather grumpily agreed and went away saying they would have to rehearse . |
| 19 | The waitress smiled , winked and wiggled away . |
| 20 | As each black creature fluttered and flapped away into the greying sky , she watched it , tears in her eyes . |
| 21 | Flotillas of birds sculled and flapped away from the train . |
| 22 | He frowned and looked away . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the Shah 's 707 , with the Shah himself at the controls , climbed and turned away towards the West , the source of many of his dreams and illusions , and now the object of hatred of many of his people . |
| 24 | I crawled in a fruitless search all the way back to the tree and then turned and crawled away again on a slightly different line , looking , looking , hope draining away yard by yard in progressive debility , resolution ebbing with failure . |
| 25 | He turned and strode away from her , leaving her weak and sickened and just a little afraid . |
| 26 | He turned and stumped away on his short , thick legs towards one of the boxes which bordered the yard . |
| 27 | Anwar turned and went away , cursing . |
| 28 | The lord of Parfois turned and went away . |
| 29 | Robyn turned and looked away , reliving the last awful moments with Luke . |
| 30 | One or two turned and lumbered away as she rode toward them . |