Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] away [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the police are looking for him again — he 's thought to be heading back to Milton Keynes after running away on a visit to court in London . |
| 2 | But there is no further time for speculation and reflection on the Enlightenment , because one of the false views of humanity ( the collectivist kind ) , after ticking away like a time bomb , explodes in a political event of such fury and consequence that the gentle yet élitist world of the Enlightenment philosophers is destroyed for ever . |
| 3 | For those of you shying away from hopping around in the water and tired of pedalling away on a bike , a new stepping machine from Powersport International could be just the thing you 're after . |
| 4 | Gloomy prognostications of Aethelbald 's life being in danger of passing away like a shadow and his soul into eternal perdition — although conventionally expressed — imply an unhappy conclusion to his life as a real possibility . |
| 5 | Instead of stealing away like a thief in the night ! |
| 6 | But still it 's an important paper that sort of broke away from a lot of the traditional thinking and led towards a lot more feminist stuff . |
| 7 | A few of the students here quite like the idea of running away with a circus . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , I was sweating and burning up so much that I was in danger of melting away into a puddle . |
| 9 | Sometimes it 's worth going away for a while and letting her think she 's beaten you , and then coming back with the food a few hours later . |
| 10 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 11 | You may feel like running away from a situation which no longer excites you mid-June . |
| 12 | For their part it seems likely that his errors and omissions were welcomed by Lewis and Shinwell as an excuse for breaking away from a situation and a personality they disliked in order to establish their own unions in their own communities |
| 13 | He is also charged with driving away from a filling station without paying for petrol . |