Example sentences of "[pron] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | The further we expand the adult the further we take ourselves away from the fears of our primitive self . |
| 2 | What is certain is that we need to recapture the vision of the primitive church , for if only we could drag ourselves away from our television sets and unhook our headphones from our portable stereos we would hear the clear call to arms . |
| 3 | We spent some time away from each other just to do our own things , but now we 're looking forward to getting back to how things were , lock ourselves away and work . |
| 4 | Dragging ourselves away we headed east into the Chivenor MATZ and past Westward Ho ! , then followed the coast past Lynton and Porlock until we reached Minehead . |
| 5 | Oh yes , I was told , providing we did n't mind tucking ourselves away in a converted cow shed . |
| 6 | Rule-following as a practice must therefore be able to carry on without anything to support it , and we must attempt to wean ourselves away from the feeling of vertigo which is engendered by our recognition of the lack of support . |
| 7 | In practice it is extraordinarily difficult to tear ourselves away from that tiny part of the situation which has attracted our attention and aroused our emotions , in order to consider the whole . |
| 8 | ‘ Great , ’ he reiterated , ‘ sampled a bit of the local night-life , lost a few francs at the gambling tables , and then found that we could n't drag ourselves away from each other , so we spent the night in a hotel . ’ |
| 9 | And how long are yours away for ? |
| 10 | One moment of confusion and he might give someone away , or incriminate himself . |
| 11 | There 's someone away all August but I 'm actually going to try to keep the sessions going , |
| 12 | But he ai n't some two-bit punk on the run after blowin' someone away . |
| 13 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 14 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 15 | ‘ If they want to eat , let them , but keep everyone away from them . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's how long you 've got to get everyone away from here . |
| 17 | And you , Rose , if you want to be useful you may keep everyone away , run any errands I may require , and take over from , or help McAllister , when I tell you to . |
| 18 | She 'd sent everyone away except her mother , and when he walked in she was ready for him . |
| 19 | After that he was a changed man , keeping everyone away from him and insisting on moving to the North Bastion Tower . ’ |
| 20 | I ca n't hang around with anyone , if I hang around with anyone that 's a smackhead for more than a couple of days , then it 's going to be tempting , so I 've got to keep meself away from them . |
| 21 | You may have thought I had thrown them away , or merely , forgotten about them , and I was entitled to do either , since you explicitly said I was to do exactly whit I liked with them , that you washed your hands of them completely . |
| 22 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 23 | Many an over-stressed big-city chef could benefit from Wendy Vaughan 's well-balanced thoughts , even if time constraints and geography conspire to keep them away from her equally well-balanced food . |
| 24 | Make sure the seed heads are fully ripe before you cut them away |
| 25 | Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside . |
| 26 | She threw all of them away except one , then realised how silly and significant it would be to arrive on his doorstep with one daffodil ; she tucked it into the contents of an overflowing litter bin and arrived at Alan 's empty-handed . |
| 27 | To ask them , and equally ( or even more ) to wave them away absentmindedly like circling insects , is to greet the novel , to respond to its personality which is the same thing as the tonal area colonized by the novelist for his present purpose . |
| 28 | Their financial situation would not have been enough to drive them away . |
| 29 | The smoke may help to keep them away , then I 'll go first on the gun . ’ |
| 30 | When the clergy tried to calm them , the crowd declared that the valuables belonged to the people , not to the church , so that priests could not give them away . |