Example sentences of "fall away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She closed her eyes , tried to clear her mind , tried to let the world fall away with the rhythms of the journey . |
| 2 | Drains should ideally be laid in straight lines between inspection chambers and should always fall away from the house with the correct gradient to ensure that the flow through the pipe is fast enough to ensure solid matter is carried along . |
| 3 | WOLVES manager Graham Turner , desperate not to fall away from the Division One promotion pacesetters , looks set to move for Morton striker Alex Mathie . |
| 4 | The fuselage has broken off behind the pilot 's seat , the propeller shaft and gearing , having fallen away from the engine on impact , lie nearby . |
| 5 | Maybe you have fallen away from the regular practice of your faith ; perhaps , you have a feeling of hurt or of being let down or ignored — well , it 's easy to come back again . |
| 6 | The beck falls away under the bridge here in a short cascade and it was a pleasant spot to sit watching clouds crossing the sky and the breeze shaking the delicate water avens on the bank . |
| 7 | This autumn the ground is so dry that most of the earth falls away through the gaps in the conveyor-belts , but the digger can not distinguish between potatoes , stones and potato-sized clods of mud , and the whole lot are delivered aloft , along two belts made of metal rods . |
| 8 | He still has a still has a few technical problems with his speeches , his voice is very thin , he falls away at the end of sentences and when he rises to a crescendo his voice is like the distance whine of an aeroplane engine but what he said was exactly what they wanted to hear a return to family life and strong law and order . |
| 9 | It is important that the waste pipe falls away from the outlet of the waste . |
| 10 | The terraces of the casbah fell away down the hill , dove-tailed into one another like the streets and courts of a medieval city , all enclosed in a wall of the same red earth . |
| 11 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 12 | Inside his head , beneath the odd blaze of hair , behind the reckless display of freckles , the same low horizon unrolled , the same milk-crate stacks of Council flats came up out of the east , like this , slowly turned , just so , and fell away into the west , like that … |
| 13 | It turned sharply , giving panoramic views over the valley , but fell away beyond the wildflowers into nothingness . |
| 14 | Our start was delayed for twelve hours by a typical short but fierce blow from the south west which fell away during the night . |
| 15 | The flare fell away to the port side , and went into the sea . |
| 16 | Having satisfied herself , she slipped into a tight calf-length dress which had a strap over the left shoulder but which fell away to the right of her body , leaving one young breast exposed . |
| 17 | Half a minute later the airframe gave one final creak and his stomach fell away as the Hercules lifted off , whining into the night sky . |
| 18 | Gradually the sun fell away behind the trees on Three Island Pond whose shadows slowly lengthened towards the Cages . |
| 19 | Thus the years at Halton fell away like the beech leaves from the trees around the camp some golden , some dark brown , but only one black that covered the parade grounds and even got into our billets on a windy day in the autumn . |
| 20 | And now the great blade spun to a whine , while the black curtain fell away from the window , directing a blinding beam on to the bright , hungry teeth . |
| 21 | Her hand fell away from the switch and she took a step towards the typists ' room , her head cocked . |
| 22 | Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa challenged hard , but fell away in the spring . |
| 23 | Call like Green Woodpecker , but more musical , slower and falling away at the end . |
| 24 | Walker died instantly ; his F-104 bursting into flames , the pieces falling away to the desert floor 25,000 feet below . |
| 25 | As the road twists uphill , following a ridge with the ground falling away to the right , panoramic views are revealed through clearings of the lake down below and the backdrop of the Oberland mountains behind . |
| 26 | The land was falling away to the side — her side ! |
| 27 | The site made use of the Mount Royal tunnel and of the considerable falling away of the land , so that although the platforms were below the station building , none the less they were above ground . |
| 28 | Thus point stimuli located at the centre of the receptive field produce a large output while stimuli falling away from the centre produce a smaller output . |
| 29 | The dangerous thing is that cliffs fall away to the north without warning , and someone getting lost in thick mist could easily come a cropper . |
| 30 | A mile from St. Cleer , where the slopes of Bodmin Moor fall away to the Fowey valley , is a monument to a ‘ King ’ of Cornwall , one of those whose story falls between history and legend . |