Example sentences of "as he [verb] away from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 2 | As he crawled away from the burning wreckage he thought he was surrounded by trees . |
| 3 | That first time , he could n't be sure , it was after midnight , too dark to tell , her belly and her legs lay like patches of moonlight on the ground , he could n't be sure , but as he lifted away from her he thought he smelt that rich , metallic smell . |
| 4 | They think the murderer may have been seen as he ran away from the hotel . |
| 5 | Synchronised football — Alton 's Dave Miller shows nice control as he turns away from his Fleetlands opponent . |
| 6 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |
| 7 | He seemed to rouse himself , and as he stepped away from the wall his mask was back in place . |
| 8 | ‘ That would make the buyer as cheap as the seller , ’ he said flatly as he stepped away from the wall . |
| 9 | Damian said impatiently as he strode away from Passport Control . |
| 10 | No one could have known that he no longer heard the park sounds for the pounding in his temples , or that his feet felt iron-clad as he walked away from the woman he longed to hold in his arms . |
| 11 | Lee watched the policeman 's back as he walked away from her and saw Rokeya , her crimson lipstick smeared down over her chin , her navy robe ruffled and gold-trimmed , her eyes watering involuntarily . |
| 12 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 13 | His shoulders are broader than he had supposed , he notices as he walks away from himself ; his bottom sticks out less . |
| 14 | As Aldous Huxley more or less said 40 years ago in The Doors of Perception , as he turned away from the exploding Red Hot Peppers : is n't alcohol a bloody awful drug ? |
| 15 | ‘ We do n't stamp passports , ’ said the Immigration man huffily as he turned away from the desk and went into the little room behind that served as his office . |
| 16 | As he turned away from her to head towards one of the tow-lifts , Shannon smiled a little sadly , not really sure whether she 'd won or lost that particular skirmish . |
| 17 | ‘ You need a holiday , son , ’ he said to himself as he pulled away from the kerb . |
| 18 | As he pulled away from the kerb , he said , ‘ I think you drank too much . ’ |
| 19 | A fresh gust of rain bounced off the bonnet as he pulled away from the kerb . |
| 20 | Behind her she could hear the sudden roar of the car engine as he pulled away from the kerb , then the steady throb as he slowed it alongside her . |
| 21 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
| 22 | In fact , however , the second point — the reality of God 's giving himself to be known in Jesus Christ — was always the real focus of his concern , and he came to stress it more and more as the years passed , and as he moved away from what he later said to have been the one-sidedness of his earlier writings . |
| 23 | The wind , as he moved away from her , was like a knife . |
| 24 | After that , his senses remained strained and alert for several hundred paces , but there was no more hint of a shadow , and as he moved away from the busier streets he became increasingly confident that he was alone . |
| 25 | Broad shoulders shrugged beneath the white T-shirt , as he moved away from her . |
| 26 | The feeling faded with the dwindling light , as he moved away from its source . |
| 27 | She watched him carefully as he moved away from the door and came and sat down . |
| 28 | There was a definite warning in his eyes now , as he stood away from the door-frame and folded his arms across his chest . |
| 29 | As he pushed away from shore , the reeds of the swamp parting before us , I asked him what his name meant in Setswanan . |