Example sentences of "them [conj] [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | We often used to squat on them until chased away by Mr. Dean who was a horse dealer . |
| 2 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 3 | He saw me up the steps and then bounded down them and drove away . |
| 4 | After a few minutes a young woman came out of the street door below them and walked away . |
| 5 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 6 | It is at that moment that Jesus comes , not as a ghost but as himself , to save them and take away their fear . |
| 7 | However , they 're not so stupid as to allow the adventurers to forge such a document right in front of them and get away with it . |
| 8 | Round she went , mouth slightly parted , eyes seeing who knew what in that circle of lights running into a liquid line as the machine quickened ; in the faces , all one blur below her as she was swung out to them and back away from them again ; in the dark caverns of leaves away above in the trees which seemed so distant , so other , lit in strange patches by the wandering spotlights , strange shadows feeling their way over branches as the lighted islands in the gathering dark turned and twirled , swayed , shuddered , slowed and came to rest . |
| 9 | He stared at her , wanting to cross the space between them and kiss away her tears ; to forgive her everything and start again . |
| 10 | Blackberry clearly thought that he might be going to attack them and backed away . |
| 11 | Yes they woke up and they 're carving them and cutting away , but could n't say anything . |
| 12 | On that great night , I stood with them and chipped away with my bare hands , until my fingers were bleeding , to bring down that iniquitous wall . |
| 13 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |