Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As built by Franklin the outer stumps were so slanted away from the middle that the balls were only precariously balanced . |
| 2 | Their rivalries were not washed away by the flows of commerce and finance . |
| 3 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 4 | But the specific features and structural characteristics of the German socio-political culture in the short-lived and ill-fated nation-state , which conditioned the manufacture and appeal of the extraordinary ‘ Hitler myth ’ , were largely swept away in the whirlpool of change arising from total defeat , and were completely banished in the process of long-term change deriving from post-war reconstruction . |
| 5 | This river gets its name from the time of the first exploration of the island , when some of Zarco 's men were nearly swept away by the river but were rescued by other members of the party in a small boat . |
| 6 | A French couple found coupling in a London museum recently were simply sent away from the fascinated onlookers . |
| 7 | It is also noteworthy that the Oriel crew — who may be presumed to have known a thing or two about rowing , given their record in recent years — also failed to remark on the fact that I or Karen were allegedly paddling away from the drowning man . |
| 8 | The earthen ramparts which had been hastily thrown up to give substance to the Collector 's revised plan of fortification were steadily melting away beneath the drumming rain . |
| 9 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 10 | The square was gently raised away from the face . |
| 11 | So popular government was more or less firmly established from 461 BC until it was finally swept away by the Macedonian conquerors in 322 BC , to be replaced by the kind of restricted franchise which its opponents had always preferred . |
| 12 | The man who kept dozens of armed police at bay for more than 11 hours , was finally driven away in the early afternoon . |
| 13 | The Hanoverians inherited a system of taxation which was already shifting away from the taxes on land and immovable property that had provided almost half of government income under the later Stuarts . |
| 14 | She was already moving away from the little cot and had her hand on the gas mantle and was turning it down . |
| 15 | The man on the moped was already speeding away in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | The driver was already pulling away in the Rolls , and Edouard already striding towards the house . |
| 17 | Before Blanche could turn to reply , he was already striding away up the road in his suit . |
| 18 | She was just turning away from the pantry door when Jenny entered the kitchen . |
| 19 | And then today when I was passing it was just munching away in the corner , you know . |
| 20 | Brother Winfrid , big and young and wholesome , was leaning on his spade at the edge of the vegetable patch beyond , and gazing after a diminutive figure that was just scuttling away round the corner of the box hedge towards the great court . |
| 21 | ‘ It was on a bearing of 280 degrees and was already west of the Falklands , so I 'm sorry but I can not see how you can say it was not sailing away from the Falklands when it was sunk . ’ |
| 22 | I was stuck there like a flying buttress between the floor and the pillar , and Jamie was still gibbering away to the girl about the sound a Triumph makes and the high-speed runs she 'd done up the side of Loch Lomond at night . |
| 23 | She walked through into the Lancaster Room again , where Phil Aldrich was still scribbling away on the hotel 's notepaper ; and for the moment ( as Sheila stood in the doorway ) looking up with his wonted patience and nodding mildly as Janet propounded her latest views on the injustice of the tour 's latest delay . |
| 24 | At press time Sun was still chipping away at the price of the Tsunami Classic , so named because Sun expects it to become the standard by which all others are judged . |
| 25 | This growing feeling during the first half of 1937 that the forces of fascism were very much on the offensive and that the initiative was gradually slipping away from the Republican cause was abruptly and symbolically confirmed in July 1937 . |
| 26 | Members of the local black community were enraged by reports that the driver of the vehicle , Yoseph Lisef , 22 , who had sustained only minor injuries , was quickly taken away from the scene of the accident by a private Jewish ambulance service , whilst the more seriously injured children were left to wait for attention from a city ambulance crew . |
| 27 | Anything short was imperiously hit away to the leg boundary and Gooch hit one classic six back over the spinner 's head . |
| 28 | Turning around brought a couple of angry hoots from the odd civilian driver — taxis and buses never blow their horns at taxis or buses — but I was now going away from the traffic flow and I was back outside PKB by five . |
| 29 | Circular shafts were dug down to the seams and coal was then dug away from the sides until the pit was in danger of collapsing , which it eventually did after the pit had been abandoned . |
| 30 | The competitive Morris was being unduly hard on himself , though there was no getting away from the fact that a missed kick by him to touch in the final second against Wasps at Sudbury had spelt defeat . |