Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eat the meal inside the tent to get away from the wind , and even there I need an extra jacket . |
| 2 | So he walked in the opposite direction , and he went to the park to get away from the people he might know . |
| 3 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 4 | It 's a long walk to Meall Corranaich and just before the top , the ridge splits away to the west which causes some confusion in poor visibility . |
| 5 | Nails screeched and popped , and the board juddered away at the bottom as something outside slammed against the wood . |
| 6 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 7 | But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's probably one of them , ’ said Lydia , ‘ — one of the lunatics giggling away in the night . ’ |
| 9 | The hood was thrown back and the cloak slid away from the old man 's body . |
| 10 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 11 | I saw two or three of the knights haled away into the woods . |
| 12 | Ingrid Heseltine , an EC civil servant , found the vacancies tucked away at the back of Euro documents , printed in French . |
| 13 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rachel holds me as the minutes tick away in the darkness . |
| 16 | As the minutes ticked away to the dinner , excitement was rising among the European leaders lucky enough to have been invited . |
| 17 | And then wanted to publish them and dug them up and the body was in a frightful state of decomposition and some of the hair came away with the poems . |
| 18 | The route turns away from the Ffos-y-Mynach at Waun Lodi where the path is boggy and dangerous . |
| 19 | They love the way the story trails away into the postscript about improvements to the mental health service . |
| 20 | The driver ran away from the scene , but is now being questioned by police . |
| 21 | More precisely , it saw the branch stretching away into the mists . |
| 22 | During the parts of the course spent away from the University , students will work in a specified hospital laboratory or laboratories in the Region . |
| 23 | A small piece of warm , of hot wax applied to the area , it 's set , pulled off , and the all the hairs come away in the wax . |
| 24 | Mr Cavendish adapted the hymn with great enthusiasm : My meat 's fresh and flavoursome , All creatures great and small , All things roast and barbecued , The Lord God made them all — and bang ! down came the cleaver and the blood trickled away down the special channel . |
| 25 | And cutting down through the rising rock , the Indus carries away from the Himalayan region five million tonnes of earthen debris every day . |
| 26 | The three cornerstones of this legislation were : the attempt to break away from the categorisation of children , allied to the concept of a continuum of need ; the importance attached to successful integration ; and the belief that a partnership with parents was vital . |
| 27 | In Cristofori 's action the hammer points away from the player . |
| 28 | Iago watched that fight to its end , and saw the survivors haled away into the forest and silence . |
| 29 | Giants went ahead at 69-67 through Johnson and as the momentum swung away from the Finns , overall victory suddenly seemed a possibility . |
| 30 | Cardiff turned away from the rain-streaked window as the policemen on cordon-duty lifted the wooden pole and the last of the cars slid away into the night . |