Example sentences of "[vb past] away [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parts of the rudder which sank away from the main hull corroded as could be expected , so the answer must lie with the hull itself . |
| 2 | Here she found Mrs Geary , kindly smoothing Twomey 's hair with her hand , while he boned away at an elegant shoe . |
| 3 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 4 | Once I had said my thanks and farewells to William and to the immense policeman who had silently accompanied us throughout the afternoon , I headed away down the rutted tracks , rather glad to be back on the road and off back to Panama City . |
| 5 | It headed away from the distant airport building , a single-storey edifice , away from the main road to Rovaniemi , heading east cross-country into the wilderness . |
| 6 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 7 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
| 8 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 9 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 10 | So these people moved away into the Pennine valleys . |
| 11 | As he moved away past the fifteen hundredweight and on down the line , his receding words of assurance were interrupted by warning shouts . |
| 12 | As the car moved away from the Elizabethan pile Marler glanced in his wing mirror . |
| 13 | After that , his senses remained strained and alert for several hundred paces , but there was no more hint of a shadow , and as he moved away from the busier streets he became increasingly confident that he was alone . |
| 14 | He moved away from the strange man , anxious to leave quickly . |
| 15 | They then moved away from the main circuit , onto a piece of rough ground for the ‘ Formula Finesse Auto Test ’ . |
| 16 | ANDREW put down his binoculars and moved away from the grey lace that hung from the curve of the curtain-wire in front of his window . |
| 17 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 18 | Of course I simply wandered away in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 20 | As the director of the new Network SouthEast , he never shied away from the divisive problems of pre-Grouping company loyalty and post-war neglect , and as a media lover soon became a star . |
| 21 | Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds . |
| 22 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 23 | Allan got away to the best start and led for the opening thirty metres ( the commentators were going berserk ! ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Jamie got away with a black eye . |
| 25 | And they got away with a large quantity of tools and car batteries . |
| 26 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 27 | The perpetrator , the young Rugby lock , Smith , got away with a stern lecture from referee Steve Lander , who had been alerted to the incident by his touch judge . |
| 28 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 29 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 30 | Police at Ames , Iowa , are looking for a one-legged burglar who stole a three-legged Labrador dog from an electrical contracting business and got away in a stolen pick-up truck . |