Example sentences of "would [verb] away from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I would stay away from Brigade H.Q for the time being . |
| 2 | Often they would quarrel and he would stay away from the house for a while ; but he was never able to stay away for long . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I hoped you would stay away from racing but it was in your blood . |
| 5 | If he could reach it and not drop anything … if the cat would stay away from his feet … |
| 6 | Imperceptibly the voluntary spirit would distil away from adult education … |
| 7 | But I did not foresee that she would run away from us both — that we would both lose her forever . ’ |
| 8 | Despite his best efforts to concentrate power effectively within his own hands , the emphasis on local authority implicit in a system purporting to operate through the traditional rulers of a primitive country , which possessed nothing approaching a unitary state co-extensive with its official boundaries , inevitably meant that power would drain away from the centre towards the local administrator , who alone could claim the special knowledge of local conditions , and opportunity for intimate supervision , on which Indirect Rule implicitly depended . |
| 9 | A phase of tranquillity and knowledge , of acceptance and harmony , when jealousies and rivalries would drop away from them like dead leaves ? |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose there might be a day when I would move away from Australia as my permanent base , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Power would move away from the people , to a remote and opaque institution . |
| 12 | Thus opposing teeth would move away from one another as the jaws closed . |
| 13 | If you held on the forward stick , the nose down attitude would increase and the model would move away from you at ever increasing speed and things would rapidly develop into an uncontrollable situation for the novice . |
| 14 | Whatever the temptation to make films with what Robert Wagner called ‘ a strong sociological punch ’ there was never any danger that the studios would move away from what were regarded as the essentials of a Hollywood film . |
| 15 | In the related oyster drill Urosalpinx cinerea , Pratt ( 1967 ) found that a starved snail would move away from other starved individuals , but towards ones which had recently fed . |
| 16 | His mouth still quirked in the aftermath of his laughter , and she wished that he would move away from the top step so that she could pass him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She would wriggle away from Sarah 's attention as soon as she could and hide in the garden . |
| 19 | ‘ We wondered if this new service would take away from our standard lipsticks , but actually what it has done is increase overall lipstick sales within the store . |
| 20 | The proposal would take away from Buckley , Penymynydd , Penyffordd , Mynydd Isa , Hope , Higher Kinnerton , and Drury , yet leave it Bryny-Baal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He is not impressed by the Prince because of who he is , but because of the man he is : because of his gift for talking to people , his tenacity and his courage in confronting problems that other men would shy away from . |
| 23 | And I think that he would shy away from scandal , it would ruin him socially also . ’ |
| 24 | WORLDS APART Fergie and the Queen often rode together , but the troubled Duchess quickly found that her mother-in-law would shy away from anything too personal |
| 25 | Because in-kind transfers appear overly paternalistic , ‘ liberal ’ economists would shy away from such interference and constraints on the decisions of recipients . |
| 26 | She would get away from here as soon as the snow began to melt . |
| 27 | For a moment it seemed as if she would pull away from him , then she nodded , and , still weeping , allowed herself to be led away . |
| 28 | Something would attract her — a cloud , a flower , a fat lady on the street- and she would drift away from the track unthinkingly . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Those were the words he spoke to her as she lay in his arms in the vulnerable moments following his pleasure when only a lout — in his opinion — would turn away from a woman without a word and go to sleep . |