Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] the [num ord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 7 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 8 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 9 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 10 | Perhaps the final irony was that Dubcek , himself a thorn in the side of Soviet authoritarianism , passed away on the 75th anniversary of Russia 's October Revolution . |
| 11 | In any case , it 's tucked away in the second half of the book , after Offred 's prison-like existence has been thoroughly , horribly established . |
| 12 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 13 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 14 | I should say that I , I came away from the last meeting with an enormous list of things to do , and I have n't managed to do them all , but they 'll emerge as we go through , erm , developments Perth , Perth if inter interrupt me |
| 15 | In my dreams , I am still out there now , jinking into the chicane in second , piling on the power through third and into the pit straight , drifting left for the marker cone , turning in , clipping the apex and howling away to the second corner . |
| 16 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 17 | Clear away for the next course , ’ said Rose . |
| 18 | Turning away for the umpteenth time , she gave a little frustrated sigh . |
| 19 | But this one wo n't be around for hundreds of years … in fact , it 'll probably be washed away with the first rainstorm . |
| 20 | ‘ I know it 's a cliche , ’ she said , standing with David 's hand in the crook of her arm , ‘ but it really does look as though it were floating , as though it might be washed away by the next tide . ’ |
| 21 | But its overall role as a credible world community of faith and love , a body that can be ignored by no one , a living tradition that combines humanity and the most sophisticated rational understanding with divinity and mystical insight , will simply dwindle away in the twenty-first century , leaving the Church as a narrowing fellowship upon the margins of history . |
| 22 | up and call me now A little music as well we have on the show we have a video from Elvis to give away in the second half of the programme and star guest this afternoon is Mary Whitehouse . |
| 23 | I have only slipped away into the next room . |
| 24 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 25 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 26 | Crewe as a previous reply rightly said are running away with the 3rd division , so a 3–1 defeat is a good result considering the mauling some other Premiership clubs got from the likes of Peterborough and Stockport . |
| 27 | Remarkably , Cambridge let the initiative dribble away in the third quarter despite spending most of that period camped in the Oxford half . |
| 28 | The room should be very warm and draught-free ; chilled muscles contract , causing a release of adrenalin — something you are trying to soothe away in the first place . |
| 29 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 30 | You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there . |