Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] away [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mind wandered away from the disembowelled calves . |
| 2 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |
| 3 | He says the security people had their attention drawn away from the closed circuit television system when they should be watching . |
| 4 | Use an extension microphone aimed away from the unwanted noise . |
| 5 | As a child he was haunted by the absent presence of a dead sister stolen away by the death-dealing forces of an unfathomable universe . |
| 6 | The hair came off like Herman 's wig , and the papery flesh flaked away from the exploded skull . |
| 7 | Signal morphology was analysed by the probability density function for the amount of time the signal spent away from the electrical baseline . |
| 8 | For years he keeps the kid hidden away like the greatest secret in the galaxy , and now he 's showing him off for everybody to see . |
| 9 | From the tip of the headland and for some way out to sea the waves were breaking white against half-submerged fangs and stacks of rock that had in time past broken away from the main cliffs . |
| 10 | Built in 1990 , the Hotel Rina is a modern , well-furnished property set away from the main road . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Museum purchasing shifted away from the earlier insistence by private collectors on masterpieces , towards the art-historical importance of the paintings , and selection tended to veer towards works which ‘ they were unlikely to receive by gift ’ from private donors . |
| 13 | Bagehot exaggerated when he described the middle classes as " the despotic power in England " but there is no doubt that the balance of power tilted away from the large landowners that dominated the House of Lords and towards the industrialists who were represented in the House of Commons . |