Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] away [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 2 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
| 3 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 4 | They 'd moved away from the office district and she was now in an area of sandwich shops , electrical stores and ticket agencies where the traffic was heavier and the pavement crowds more dense . |
| 5 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 6 | Helen , alarmed and suspecting infidelity ( there had been an episode in the past concerning which Louise had boiled away on the telephone for months on end ) , asked what was wrong with him . |
| 7 | My morning sickness I had explained away as the bug starting and a lot of the time it was sickness at an evening meal . |
| 8 | Mr Van Eck said that he had recorded documentary evidence that police — some in plain clothes — had been shooting supporters of local headmen who had broken away from the committee running Crossroads , alleging fraud and corruption . |
| 9 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 10 | If the hammer had pointed away from the player , the check would not have worked . |
| 11 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 12 | One night when the last streamers had shivered away against the dawn sky , leaving its heaven blue merely bland , she walked away from her colony and stood at the furthest tip of the ice sheet . |
| 13 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 14 | Mr Widmer praised the minister for his ‘ sympathetic attitude ’ and said the company had come away from the meeting re-assured that it would not be forced to move . |
| 15 | Additionally , the holder clamp for the lower bearing of the main rotor drive shaft had torn away from the bracket mounting it to the airframe structure . |
| 16 | Any of a thousand princes who had crawled away from the fire to shed their blood and start a legend … |
| 17 | Deep inside her had been awakened a nameless , primitive fear that at first had ached away in the background , but slowly had grown more evident , more pronounced , like a stared-at , half-perceived figure in the shadowy corner of a bedroom . |
| 18 | Behind him , Maisie had moved away from the window . |
| 19 | Similarly , theologians such as Schleiermacher had moved away from the idea of a miracle as a supernatural intervention in the normal processes of nature , and were in essential harmony with Strauss ' conclusions . |
| 20 | The praise bestowed on the adaptation of literary classics , the films of the foreign directors , and the role of Vidor always stressed the relative realism of these films compared with the standard product and was testimony to the extent to which the feature film had moved away from the era of social preoccupations when it had been felt that social preaching was the obvious subject-matter for Hollywood . |
| 21 | The skin from both hands had peeled away from the rest of the corpse . |
| 22 | He had stayed away from the whisky . |
| 23 | We did not tell him how glad we were that he had stayed away from the moor ! |
| 24 | Its green eyes caught light for a moment as it peered up at Doyle , then it had raced away into the night , a sleek , dark shape , perturbed by the presence of furtive human life on its territory . |
| 25 | Indeed , they had melted away into the crowd . |
| 26 | Natasha sighed audibly and said nothing for so long Charlotte thought she had walked away from the telephone . |
| 27 | But friends were not surprised he had slipped away with the physio , who has practices in Sydney and London . |
| 28 | But Cher had slipped away to the back of the restaurant . |
| 29 | In the process he had lost sight of Jack Stone , and Stone had slipped away into the night . |
| 30 | It was the tall woman who had slipped away after the funeral service . |