Example sentences of "[v-ing] away [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 2 | A black-and-white Tudor manor house , separated by a gravelled car park from a modern two-storey extension mocked up to resemble stables ; lawns behind sloping away towards the wooded flanks of the Surrey hills ; the colours of St. George hanging limply from a flagstaff ; three geese in flight across a swash-lettered nameboard ; and smoke pluming vertically from slender chimney stacks . |
| 3 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 4 | But er this hundred and twenty pound radio was knocking away for a five quid in the end er I er I heard . |
| 5 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 6 | Wearing a chic black costume and white fur wrap , she is seen waving to him as he departs for the colony before walking away to a smart car beside which stands a chauffeur . |
| 7 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 8 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 9 | The man on the moped was already speeding away in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 11 | Ways of retreat from this point are various and there is even a metal ring — I hesitate to say bolt — to facilitate an abseil. the able can reverse the climbs on the pinnacle 's short side and the crazy always have the option of hobbling away with a sprained ankle after ‘ successfully ’ negotiating Cook 's Leap , the jump across the gully to the main edge ! |
| 12 | Visitors to the UFW in the 1970s often found nuns typing away in the outer office . |
| 13 | Many farm workers recognize this as an unavoidable aspect of living away from the main centres of industry , and while they may occasionally recognize the limitations which are imposed upon their freedom to choose both employment and housing , they are not necessarily embittered by it . |
| 14 | The woman nodded before looking away into the dying embers of the fire . |
| 15 | By picking away at every factual link in the chain from furnace to fishless lake , Britain 's electricity industry hoped to avoid any restrictions on atmospheric discharges , whether ‘ arbitrary ’ or not . |
| 16 | She enjoyed the discipline of eating them without butter — the idea of keeping pats of butter overnight in a bedroom was abhorrent to her , incompatible with her picture of herself , swansdown on her bedjacket , broderie anglaise at her wrists , nibbling away in a leisured manner , her widow 's weeds for the moment forgotten . |
| 17 | In my dreams , I am still out there now , jinking into the chicane in second , piling on the power through third and into the pit straight , drifting left for the marker cone , turning in , clipping the apex and howling away to the second corner . |
| 18 | Go through an unobtrusive door at the back of the Trent Bridge pavilion then turn left into a book-lined room , and on any match day you 'll find the central table occupied by the owner of a moustache of impressively Victorian dimensions , like as not tapping away on a venerable-looking typewriter . |
| 19 | Andrew Jean was back , beehive still in place , and chattering away like the old days . |
| 20 | Greeting us sleepily , they began immediately to cast off The engine started and a moment later we were pulling away from the other barges in a wash of white water . |
| 21 | The fire tenders were pulling away from the doomed building as the two men pounded towards them , waving them down . |
| 22 | As both sides were positive in their approach to the new laws , the game was fast and flowing , with Wasps pulling away in the final quarter to win 35–10 . |
| 23 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 24 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 25 | I knew she was unhappy about his going away for a whole weekend when she was too sick to accompany him . |
| 26 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 27 | ‘ One of our sons was with us for eight months before going away to the other end of the earth — I could n't even phone him . |
| 28 | ‘ I am going away with a nice feeling . |
| 29 | Going away with a small child is easy — thanks to a variety of items from lightweight buggies to portable potties ! |
| 30 | ‘ Millin , you will be leaving here and going away with the tall man , Lovat . |