Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] away from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection .
2 At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland .
3 Ten athletes trained by Long came away from the North-East Championships with ten medals , including five golds .
4 As they finally drove away from the scene , Paddy Mayne was observed to jump out of his jeep , run across to a parked aircraft and place a bomb on the wing .
5 By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door .
6 The one Johnson 's enthusiasm faded and he soon drifted away from the sport ; the other had his first competitive contest in the following January and so began one of the longest and least celebrated ring careers in British boxing .
7 She now moved away from the case and looked at a list attached , low down , on the wall to the side of the smokers ' requisites demonstration case .
8 She looked cautiously around and then walked away from the house , making for the road that had led here , the long , twisting road from the main highway .
9 She rather skated away from the subject after a while . ’
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