Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men in small firms experience an earlier and lower peak growth rate which very quickly drops away after the twenty-fifth year of service . |
| 2 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 3 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 6 | The lock itself seemed good , though wrenched away by the forced entry . |
| 7 | The line is wrenched away by the locked jaw of the sea dog below . |
| 8 | With fine forceps , the entire AER was teased away from the left limb and discarded , causing no obvious damage to underlying mesenchyme . |
| 9 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 10 | Fun 's the last thing I feel like ! ’ she replied swiftly , trying to pull away from the deceptive strength of his hold . |
| 11 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 12 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 16 | So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | We can get carried away by the sheer attractiveness of the deal or temptation and overlook that priority . |
| 21 | He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria . |
| 22 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 23 | It headed away from the distant airport building , a single-storey edifice , away from the main road to Rovaniemi , heading east cross-country into the wilderness . |
| 24 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 25 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
| 26 | This dislocated alternation of joy and fear , anxiety and compulsion , of being outside and inside , and of time that is distorted away from the normal sequence , is difficult to put into words , later words , linear words : but once , in a friend 's flat in Holland Park , I heard the opening passages of a gramophone record which almost caught it : Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion . |
| 27 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 28 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 29 | As he moved away past the fifteen hundredweight and on down the line , his receding words of assurance were interrupted by warning shouts . |
| 30 | As the car moved away from the Elizabethan pile Marler glanced in his wing mirror . |