Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
3 | A black-and-white Tudor manor house , separated by a gravelled car park from a modern two-storey extension mocked up to resemble stables ; lawns behind sloping away towards the wooded flanks of the Surrey hills ; the colours of St. George hanging limply from a flagstaff ; three geese in flight across a swash-lettered nameboard ; and smoke pluming vertically from slender chimney stacks . |
4 | The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents . |
5 | Cole ( 1986 ) has investigated twelve high-use and twelve low-use campsites located away from the main tourist access routes in three desert vegetation types consisting of desert scrub , catclaw ( Acacia greggi ) and piñon-juniper ( Pinus edulie–Juniperus osteosperma ) communities . |
6 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
7 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
8 | The lock itself seemed good , though wrenched away by the forced entry . |
9 | The line is wrenched away by the locked jaw of the sea dog below . |
10 | With fine forceps , the entire AER was teased away from the left limb and discarded , causing no obvious damage to underlying mesenchyme . |
11 | Fun 's the last thing I feel like ! ’ she replied swiftly , trying to pull away from the deceptive strength of his hold . |
12 | Half a crown And you used to come away with a big piece of flat brisket and if he 's got any sausage left , or bits a of pork pies , he used to shove a bit of that in . |
13 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
14 | For more recipe ideas send away for a free booklet to ‘ Salads through the seasons ’ |
15 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
16 | Let your tack dry away from a direct source of heat ; do n't put it in front of a radiator or fire , or the leather will become brittle . |
17 | Parts of the rudder which sank away from the main hull corroded as could be expected , so the answer must lie with the hull itself . |
18 | Here she found Mrs Geary , kindly smoothing Twomey 's hair with her hand , while he boned away at an elegant shoe . |
19 | So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise . |
20 | Carried away on a rushing tide of dark enchantment , she quivered as his tongue caressed her skin , his mouth feather-light as it brushed enticingly , back and forth , over her swollen nipples . |
21 | She tried to fight him , but her effort was half-hearted as she found herself carried away on an irresistible tide of longing . |
22 | But Clive Lawton , head of educational services , said there was still a long way to go , and he warned against being carried away with a good idea if it were to impoverish the rest of the scheme . |
23 | I for one did not get carried away with the Triple Crown hype after the ‘ splendour ’ of the victory over Wales ( for which your publication was equally responsible ) . |
24 | The British traveller and journalist , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace , believed Alexander " had inherited from his father a strong dislike to sentimentalism and rhetoric of all kinds " and that " This dislike , joined to a goodly portion of sober common-sense , a limited confidence in his own judgment , and a consciousness of enormous responsibility , prevented him from being carried away by the prevailing excitement " with which his reign began . |
25 | Under duress from external events , she practised collective Cabinet government in something approaching the traditional form , though David Howell , at that time Secretary of State for Transport , cautions against being carried away by the collective theme : |
26 | We can get carried away by the sheer attractiveness of the deal or temptation and overlook that priority . |
27 | You need to pace yourself , so that you do not get carried away by the never-ending tasks that could fill your day with frenetic activity . |
28 | A tree that goes in a chipper as a 7ft , 20lb pine comes out as a pile of fragrant mulch that can be carried away in a small box to be used in parks or gardens . |
29 | The muse 's intervention occurs after Astrophil appears to be carried away in a violent frenzy , unable to find a fit language to achieve his ends . |
30 | He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria . |