Example sentences of "melt away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 2 | It was not all that long ago that you could see young men discreetly selling Bibles on the streets and they would melt away when the KGB , the enforcers of the atheist state , appeared . |
| 3 | One problem is that once closure is mooted congregations may melt away , services may become less frequent and the will to continue is eroded . |
| 4 | Would n't it be wonderful if you could melt away the flab simply by smoothing in a special cream , or break down fat by rubbing away at your wobbly bits ? |
| 5 | Weir ( in Phillipson et al. , 1986 ) distinguishes between reassurance , warning against ‘ the bland , cosy suggestion that our troubles are all illusory and will melt away with little or no intervention on our part ’ , and encouragement in dealing with retired people . |
| 6 | ‘ With half a squadron of our helicopters , their guns would melt away into the forest , ’ Mr Ashdown said . |
| 7 | When mature , each hydra — all part of the same hydra — would sporulate psychically , infesting human minds planet-wide , while all body traces would melt away . |
| 8 | Yet the logic of the definition suggested that it would benefit especially kings , whose competence to declare war could not be impugned : thus Thibaud of Blois failed to persuade the monks of Marmoutier that they owed him service when he fought against Louis VI ; they claimed discretion in the matter ; and in 1184 , the mighty Philip of Alsace hesitated to commit to battle the army he had summoned against Philip Augustus , through fear that its ranks might melt away . |
| 9 | Incredible though it seems for such an intelligent man , Carter 's principal error at the beginning was to assume that once the underlying rationale of his energy programme had been explained to , and absorbed by the public , opposition would melt away . |
| 10 | It is hoped that in this way the metaphysical difficulties surrounding this problem will largely melt away . |
| 11 | Forester could simply melt away and leave the area , but his own freedom was n't his main concern ; he 'd already spent a week away from Cumbria , and he had a sick fear of returning to find the clinic ruins empty and the valley returned to placid normality . |
| 12 | Caspar was not the ideal person to be shoulder to shoulder with , because he would probably melt away altogether if there was a real threat . |
| 13 | She almost ran from the room , as if afraid that her newly found resolve would melt away if she did not immediately put it into practice . |
| 14 | All the conflicts he explained , would melt away the minute we had a screenplay in our hands . |
| 15 | But , however much her body yearned for submission , to let her will melt away in the pleasure Luke 's expert hands could give her , still in the background of her mind was a sense of holding something back . |
| 16 | The seal saw them shimmer and melt away until one day the penguin said to her : |
| 17 | As soon as I 'm over this bit , we 'll just melt away in the fog one morning and send everybody postcards . |
| 18 | This makes everything melt away into the background . |
| 19 | What happens to the aspirations of youth as we grow older , do they just melt away ? |
| 20 | When there was snow lying on it , he fervently hoped the whole thing would melt away in the thaw . |