Example sentences of "and [vb past] away [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He nodded , then turned and rode away at a canter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She broke off as if afraid of being overheard and moved away with a nod and a wave . |
| 6 | The boy gave an amused flick of his head , swung round unhurriedly — yet not too slowly , either — and sauntered away with a laugh , his admirers tittering after him . |
| 7 | I flew over Paddy 's shoulders , bounced off the bonnet and rushed away like a madman . |
| 8 | ‘ Why ? ’ he said once more , and walked away towards a bus-shelter . |
| 9 | Who took a spin at 100 mph and walked away in a daze ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Alternatively , you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis . |
| 12 | She turned Midnight on his hocks and went away at a canter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ We eventually fell madly in love and went away for a string of dirty weekends . ’ |
| 15 | But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind . |
| 16 | Having said that , he enjoyed the depth of conviction to be heard at a conventicle and slipped away to a service on the muirs above the village as often as he was able to do so . |
| 17 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 18 | A heron rose from the river and flapped away into a clump of tall trees in the distance . |