Example sentences of "she [vb past] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes glittered , and , mouth twisting , she flung away from him . |
| 2 | Spinning on her heel , she stalked away with her head in the air . |
| 3 | She stalked away from the front door and it closed softly behind him . |
| 4 | She preferred laughter and skylarks to solid endeavour and while she could be noisy she shied away from being the centre of attention . |
| 5 | She shied away from architectural accuracy — she could have a gingerbread house if it was her ideal . |
| 6 | She wondered whether she should ring Bridget — she still had n't spoken to her since leaving Oxford on Monday morning — but , with Jamie 's visit imminent , she shied away from the thought . |
| 7 | Instinctively she shied away from that idea , and accepted then that this interview business was nowhere near as easy as Cara had made out that it would be . |
| 8 | But she shied away from the idea . |
| 9 | She got away with bloody three or four CD 's last week . |
| 10 | And so Lucy said , ‘ Well … she got away from all this . ’ |
| 11 | Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began . |
| 12 | The faster she got away from him the better , for her sanity if nothing else . |
| 13 | He handed down the cane and the bicycle lamp and she waded away into the shadows as the curious faces of the villagers , the anxious face of her father , peered down at her . |
| 14 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 15 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
| 16 | Fiona Allison was the main designer of our banners and since she moved away in 1989 there has not been a group — you ca n't call one person a group ! |
| 17 | With another little smile , she moved away in search of her future , if temporary guide . |
| 18 | She moved away in front of them . |
| 19 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 20 | Thanks to her ‘ habits ’ the job did n't last long , and she moved away from Sheffield in 1960 , sending a note to say she 'd keep in touch . |
| 21 | She moved away from the mirror and walked slowly to the door , she would eat her supper , make pleasant conversation with her landlady and then return to her room . |
| 22 | He started to put his arm round Nancy 's waist and reached some of the way towards her mouth before she moved away from him . |
| 23 | As she moved away from him , the reason became clear . |
| 24 | She moved away from the window . |
| 25 | As she moved away from the pavement , a black BMW slowed down and drew abreast of them . |
| 26 | Purposefully , she moved away from him , determined to put some distance between them . |
| 27 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 28 | She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven . |
| 29 | She drew away to the balcony over the lobby , feeling incapable , looking down at the bawling men in dinner jackets far below and the women with stiff hair . |
| 30 | The wash of waves on the pebbled beach , the crying and calling of the wheeling gulls , the silver chain of sound from a lark above the cliff-top , and , as a final coda , the distant , breathy note of the ferry 's siren as she drew away towards the west . |