Example sentences of "would [vb infin] away [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I did say we 'd keep away from acid plus alkali gives |
2 | Tears again , she felt like the child she had been when her father gave wild stinging slaps to her legs by way of welcome after she 'd run away from home . |
3 | It had been hours since they 'd run away from Grandson Richard , as Gurder kept on putting it . |
4 | Anyway , I would stay away from Brigade H.Q for the time being . |
5 | When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more . |
6 | Many of these machines were indistinguishable in appearance from human beings , but not all — one of his stories described a race of intelligent motor-cars which , once parked for the night , would zoom away to sex orgies . |
7 | Imperceptibly the voluntary spirit would distil away from adult education … |
8 | Pressing his hand against her bosom or kissing his fingers softly and reverently , she told him that she knew and had always known that only she could make him happy , that there was already a mystical bond between them and that if she could not soon feel his arms about her and his lips upon her own , she would sink away into despair . |
9 | It would blow away with victory , it would calm itself off circuit , but at the track — always impeccably attired , natty , cleaned and scrubbed — he fairly sizzled . |
10 | With such rapid production , it would be advantageous for a particular plant to do this as browsers would move away from branches near the wounded ones . |
11 | ‘ I suppose there might be a day when I would move away from Australia as my permanent base , ’ she said . |
12 | She would wriggle away from Sarah 's attention as soon as she could and hide in the garden . |
13 | The ‘ functionless investor ’ would fade away in face of the eminent reasonableness of social planning of investment . |
14 | The proposal would take away from Buckley , Penymynydd , Penyffordd , Mynydd Isa , Hope , Higher Kinnerton , and Drury , yet leave it Bryny-Baal . |
15 | Her body was alive , throbbing with pulses she never knew she had , and as she jerked her face away from his she knew he had once again defeated her , outclassed her , and she knew without a doubt that he was right : if there was ever a real fight between her and Damian Flint , he would take supremacy , she would be overpowered by the fierce excitement burning in her now , and he would walk away with victory on a scale she did not dare imagine . |
16 | If only his father would go away to sea ! |
17 | He would be away two weeks : when he returned , he told Grégoire , they would go away on holiday , to the sea perhaps , as they had the year before . |
18 | This revolving of him in her mind led invariably to the same end , the same fear , that he would go away from Hilderbridge without her seeing him and then she would never see him again . |
19 | And I think that he would shy away from scandal , it would ruin him socially also . ’ |
20 | To my inexperienced eyes she seemed still to be floating far too high in the water , and I doubted that we would get away before sunset . |
21 | None of them was seen as capable of safely preparing a meal ; seven would wander away from home if not watched ; four were substantially incontinent ; five were thought to be at risk with gas or fires ; six were physically frail or had mobility difficulties . |
22 | I do n't my children would crawl away from home . |