Example sentences of "[pers pn] away [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Neighbour Muriel Harding-Newman , 79 , said : ‘ We could see the cows were stamping and kicking and that someone was trying to push them away but they would n't move .
2 ‘ Throw them away and come back with me . ’
3 To break contact , move your hands close together again , slide them away and give them a good shake to remove any tingling ( or even tension ) picked up from your partner .
4 Parents may hold their babies close and convey love for and admiration of their bodies , or they may hold them away and register distaste , even disgust , for some of their bodily functions .
5 Instead of dealing with the problem of a shrinking environment , for many years , scientists have wanted to protect the panda by taking them away and intervening with modern and more effective methods .
6 Some are solitary , and this one constructs a nest for its eggs and offspring by cutting away half-moon shaped pieces of leaf , carrying them away and sticking them together like bricks !
7 A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ .
8 Then she gave up trying to scrape them away and stood there weakly , motionless with horror .
9 We suspected they were not made of sheepskin at all er and we took some of them away and analyzed them to find out what exactly are they made of .
10 Take them away and we have nothing .
11 It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement .
12 Olivia , who likes her sleep , soon developed a great loathing for our morning visitors , but all her efforts to drive them away and apart had little success , and spectacularly failed to calm the passions of the energetically copulating birds .
13 If they stay silent , their dialects will never give them away and they can be whoever they like . ’
14 He covered his face with his hands , then took them away and looked down at the earth .
15 But it was too late ; large tears rolled down her cheeks and , no matter how swiftly she swiped them away and pretended they were n't there , they just kept on coming .
16 Therefore the recipient did not dare to throw them away and was in effect forced to give them house room .
17 There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know .
18 She made no attempt to wipe them away and one by one they dripped from her nose and chin on to the hands that lay folded in her lap .
19 But such things have become part of himself and he can not be restrained from taking them away and using them .
20 so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer .
21 Yes , erm all our sort of cabbage stalks and beans stalks go onto the muck heap to turn into a sort of compost , but other people they just sort of burn or take them away and buy a bag of compost .
22 We 'll take them out and throw them away and that 's all within the maker of the er , of the wings , er take them out , throw them away , er take the bumper off , throw that away , right , get a new number plate , a new bumper right cos the bumper 's got to come off anyway with the wings
23 It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for
24 I 'll knock out all my polish here and put them away and knock that off .
25 rack for fucking plates , so I put them away and the best way to do it is if sit at the table , you wash and I 'll dry or I 'll dr you er dry and I 'll wash , well what
26 So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them .
27 ‘ Shall I send them away or can you sleep through that ? ’
28 The employer may find it difficult when he becomes aware of the fact that his former customers are now dealing with his former employee to prove that preparation to entice them away or enticement did in fact take place during employment .
29 and I once went in to collect some and erm , I think it was Mrs said oh good have you come to take them away or something like that cos there was , there were n't many left in the school so I
30 She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio .
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