Example sentences of "he [verb] away from " in BNC.
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| 1 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 2 | One day he shied away from an empty crisp bag and fell into a ditch . |
| 3 | He shied away from her like a startled horse . |
| 4 | Marigold would have preferred Highgate , he knew , but in spite of the therapy and the control he shied away from Highgate . |
| 5 | Synchronised football — Alton 's Dave Miller shows nice control as he turns away from his Fleetlands opponent . |
| 6 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |
| 7 | He stalked away from her to a cherrywood desk in the far corner . |
| 8 | He rode away from me a day ago . |
| 9 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 10 | He rides away from Queen Isabella in hopeless fury , rides day and night , and when his mule dies under him he shoulders his ridiculous gipsy patchwork bags , their rowdy colours muted now by dirt ; and walks . |
| 11 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
| 12 | He got away from her and looked for Dangerfield . |
| 13 | I seem to remember he got away from her by locking himself in his flat with friends for the weekend and they had a jolly good party . |
| 14 | So he got away from the bed , he had his hands up . |
| 15 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 16 | Eventually he got away from the dogs , + hid under a car , panting loudly . |
| 17 | He straightened away from the stone urn and slipped his hands back into his trouser pockets . |
| 18 | He straightened away from her and turned his attention to the man on the floor . |
| 19 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
| 20 | He jerked away from me . |
| 21 | Abruptly he jerked away from her , no longer touching her although still kneeling before her with his head bent . |
| 22 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |
| 23 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
| 24 | He moved away from me . |
| 25 | In fact , however , the second point — the reality of God 's giving himself to be known in Jesus Christ — was always the real focus of his concern , and he came to stress it more and more as the years passed , and as he moved away from what he later said to have been the one-sidedness of his earlier writings . |
| 26 | You see he moved away from communism as |
| 27 | In 1832 , he moved away from his beloved Helps ton to a larger house in bleak North borough on the edge of the tens . |
| 28 | He moved away from the spot on which he had prayed and gazed over Crummock Water . |
| 29 | He moved away from the strange man , anxious to leave quickly . |
| 30 | He moved away from her and swung his legs back over the side of the bed . |