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 break away from somebody = leave somebody who is holding you.

She broke away from her father and now lives by herself.

 come away = become separated from the main part.


I turned some of the pages and they came away in my hand.

 get away = leave a place.


The meeting continued up to 8 o'clock but I was able to get away at 7.30.

 get away with something = leave a place with something.


The thieves got away with all the money.

 get away with something = not be caught or punished for something wrong.
The boy never does his homework but he always gets away with it.

 give something away = give away something = give something because you do not
want or need it.
She gave her old clothes away when she moved.

 give something away = give away something = tell something secret.


He doesn't want to give away how the system works.

 give somebody away = show where somebody is or what they are doing, when they
are trying to keep this a secret.
Peter looked down, but his voice gave him away.

 pass away = die.


She's very sad because her grandfather has passed away.

 run away = leave a place secretly, escape.


The thief closed the door and ran away.

 take somebody/something away = take away somebody/something = remove


somebody/something.
The waiter took away the plates before we had finished.

 walk away = leave a bad situation instead of trying to make it better.


We've been married for ten years, you can't just walk away!

 walk away with something = win something easily.


The lucky winner will walk away with $10,000.

 1. Before he moved, he all his books to the local library.

 2. The thieves with two paintings.

 3. The kid from home and has been missing for two weeks.

 4. The button of the DVD player in my hands.

 5. When the company started to have problems, he decided to .


 6. He felt he needed to from home.

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