Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled earnestly , surveyed the room and scribbled away on the Offload page . |
| 2 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 3 | I made ready to slip away down the passage . |
| 4 | As the uniform cops thrust forwards we edged back and managed to slip away without attracting official notice . |
| 5 | If you chat too long with a particular parent , it means others have to slip away without a word . |
| 6 | It might seem too easy to him just to slip away into the fantasy world of death . ’ |
| 7 | There was a small queue at the rear exit as the men waited to slip away into the night . |
| 8 | While machine-gun fire raked the streets around his office , he walked down a back staircase and managed to slip away into hiding . |
| 9 | The sentry took advantage of the pause to slip away into the undergrowth . |
| 10 | I would have to slip away to toilets , down basement stairs , off into the closed stacks of the library and there strike the flint . |
| 11 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 12 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 13 | Here comes summer … time for the two of you to slip away for that special holiday , so sit back and enjoy those dream destinations that make you wish you were there … cruise the Caribbean 's hot spots on Le Ponant and graceful and stylish luxury yacht … take time off a tour of the Greek Islands and enjoy the special mixture of sun , beauty and history … party 'till dawn on Majorca or discover more secluded spots on this and the other Balearic Islands … beat the crowds to the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla and relish the silky feel of warm sand slipping between your toes … if time is short cross the Channel to France and the pretty countryside of Picardy … or rediscover England on a relaxing barge built for two … we also look at romantic hotels in Britain , perfect for first nights , short breaks or indulgent weekends … |
| 14 | The 1980s ended with the tabloids ' confidence waning , and with the Sun 's nudes moving to page five , perhaps to slip away for good . |
| 15 | Some who were working intended to slip away for an hour or so . |
| 16 | In contrast to the parties given in his honour , from which Eliot would contrive to slip away after a token attendance , these functions , never too large , were the kind he most enjoyed . |
| 17 | She glimpsed again that girlish figure momentarily outlined against the walls of the abbey only to slip away like a wraith and be lost among the shadows of the beach . |
| 18 | The spring , he says , is a particularly perilous time in adder-land : as they emerge from hibernation , adders are too groggy to slip away from potential threats but their fangs are filled with several months ' worth of venom . |
| 19 | It was Wharton 's 14th win in 15 fights — the other bout ended in a draw — but he seemed to be allowing the fight to slip away from him through uncharacteristic casualness in the fifth and sixth rounds . |
| 20 | Run ! at me but the message is n't getting through , there 's something else in the way , something else pulling me back , back to Andy and back to that frozen river bank ; I hear Andy crying out and I can still see him reaching towards me and he 's about to slip away from me again and I ca n't do anything … but I can , this time I can ; I can do something and I will . |
| 21 | Shortly after that we rounded a bend and there was sheet ice on the bend , and I felt the car beginning to slip away from me . |
| 22 | When he had vanished from sight she expelled a long sigh and allowed the mask to slip away from her face , slowing returning to her towel and lying down flat on it . |
| 23 | It is the custom , you understand , for the bride and groom to slip away from the wedding during the evening celebration , and hide somewhere — at a friend 's for example . ’ |
| 24 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 25 | All this information , derived as it was from chance remarks of Mr Malik 's , threatened to slip away from his memory even as he was talking . |
| 26 | Such is one of my favourite swims : the top of the shelf is 2½ft deep and then it rapidly drops away to 8ft at the base . |
| 27 | On my left the ground drops away through uncertain undergrowth into back gardens and a view of rooftops . |
| 28 | Men in small firms experience an earlier and lower peak growth rate which very quickly drops away after the twenty-fifth year of service . |
| 29 | Her tameness drops away like a spring moult , and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else . |
| 30 | With a sense of endlessness contained only by a sense of the sea beyond , the earth slopes and drops away from one 's eyes in charcoal heaps of volcanic ash . |