Example sentences of "[vb past] away [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 2 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 3 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
| 4 | As in France under the Fifth Republic , West Germany moved away from a system of political parties based on class , religious and constitutional differences . |
| 5 | Mrs Healy moved away like a ship under full sail . |
| 6 | TORY back-benchers last night shied away from a rebellion over the Budget imposition of value-added tax on domestic fuel . |
| 7 | Raiders got away with a quantity of drugs , including adrenaline hydrochloride , hydrocortisone and cocaine between 1pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday . |
| 8 | It seems , Freddie as he 's been named , stowed away with a consignment of bananas from the Windward Islands . |
| 9 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |
| 10 | We soon roared away in a cloud of dust , shoulder to ribcage with the largest man I have ever seen in my life . |
| 11 | The recruitment poster , designed by Riley Advertising , also came away with a certificate in the full colour press ad category . |
| 12 | Gingerly she felt her mouth with her fingertips ; they came away with a splattering of blood where she had bitten her own lip . |
| 13 | Glorious because they came away with a victory over Rosslyn Park … but no thanks to the quagmire at the Kingsholm ground . |
| 14 | That would explain why his victims all stayed in bed as he blasted away with a handgun in the luxury , ranch-style home near San Diego , California . |
| 15 | This was the most precious moment , as he came to the end of his thrilling song , and his gentle but vibrant voice faded away on a note of infinitely passionate promise … |
| 16 | ‘ He is an old woman , ’ she replied , and half turned away with a swish of her sea-green silk dress . |
| 17 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 18 | His quill pen scratched away on a sheet of treated notepaper , creating a little masterpiece of querulous complaint about a mistress Byron was tired of . |
| 19 | A THIEF walked away with a haul worth hundreds of pounds when he staged a ram raid on a shop with a wheelbarrow . |
| 20 | There she asked to have Paul 's ring put in the hotel 's safe and , that done , walked away with a sense of relief . |
| 21 | As we walked away to a coffee-shop in the Royal Mile , Meehan said , ‘ That 's the first court in my life I 've been turned away from . ’ |
| 22 | The speech-writing team , locked away in a suite at the Imperial Hotel , are said to have made faster progress this year than at previous conferences , despite the need to do some hefty redrafting to echo the Chancellor 's assurances on the economy . |
| 23 | Kandinskaya stared hard at her and said , ‘ The first one was apparently plucked out of its route between Mars and Andronicus and whisked away to a place in the asteroid belt some seventy-nine degrees away from here . |
| 24 | The hostess broke away from a clique of friends and bustled towards him , arms outstretched . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | With a nod to Mala , she whirled away in a sweep of dark cape , the men following — until Mala stopped them . |
| 27 | It screamed away from a rock behind him . |
| 28 | The invasion of Italy by Hannibal precipitated a series of military disasters on Rome and had a clear effect on her coinage : the purity of the silver was reduced ; the weight standard of the bronze coinage fell away from a standard of 135g to one of only 54g ; and a coinage of gold was issued ( before the Roman imperial period , gold coinage was unusual and generally produced only in times of emergency or crisis ) . |
| 29 | Alternatively , you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis . |
| 30 | He appears to have been pleased that someone was fostering the substance which so interested him , and went away with a sample of Oxford material , which was more potent than any he had himself prepared . |