Example sentences of "she turn away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weeping , she turned away as the prince , trying manfully to hold back his tears , was led away . |
| 2 | She turned away from the clinical whiteness of one successful firm with its forbidding elderly receptionist , to the old-fashioned chaos of another with its smell of coffee and everyone being informal and helpful . |
| 3 | As she turned away from the house , into the lane , she gave a shudder of relief . |
| 4 | She turned away from the mirror . |
| 5 | She turned away from the theatre photograph and stared , hostile , at the bus in the way an elderly person will crossly confront a jutting paving-stone on which he has stubbed his toe . |
| 6 | She turned away from the road and started treading her way through pebbles towards the ocean . |
| 7 | She turned away from the door , stood irresolute outside the door of her own cabin . |
| 8 | It was n't until she turned away from the elms that Artemis realized she was not alone . |
| 9 | The only reality of the event had been her mother 's reaction , which was silent , grim , and grudging to the last ; not a tear did she shed , and after the funeral , as she turned away from the graveside and started to walk slowly through the cemetery mud she set her mouth in that prophetic way , and straightened her thick body , and then , as she passed a gravestone announcing that death is but a separation , she opened her mouth and said , " Well , he 's gone , and I ca n't say I 'm sorry . " |
| 10 | It was when she turned away from the window that she saw it . |
| 11 | She turned away from the door , and fell into salt water , right up to her neck . |
| 12 | As she turned away from the limousine , the last thing Katherine felt like doing was laughing . |
| 13 | Her cheeks burned and she turned away from the window . |
| 14 | Reluctantly she turned away from the window . |
| 15 | She turned away from the mirror and , putting her cosmetics in a vanity bag , opened the door . |
| 16 | She turned away from the window , closed her case , caught up her jacket and bag and walked to the door . |
| 17 | With a resolute nod at her reflection , she turned away from the bouncing curls and lightly freckled face and began to undress for bed . |
| 18 | She smiled as she turned away from the tempting sight of him , holding the swaths of cotton around her as she crossed the room and picked up his hairbrush to untangle the knots from her hair . |
| 19 | She turned away from the window , sighing wearily as she glanced round the room . |
| 20 | She turned away from the mirror with a sound of disgust . |