Example sentences of "[verb] away [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the shell emerges from the gun barrel at more than 15000 m/s , aluminium petals peel away to reveal a long , thin tungsten-alloy rod with fins at the rear to stabilise it and thus improve accuracy . |
| 2 | When I reach its head the man in charge goes away to conduct a transaction involving cardboard boxes . |
| 3 | The price of a loaf of bread was several hours labour and both the miller and the domestic baker had to slog away to procuce a loaf . |
| 4 | To his credit , Parrott ignored the 16 points loss and nibbled away to put a game on the scoreboard by a 73–48 margin . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so glad for you and George , ’ she said warmly , but when Elizabeth turned away to serve a customer , Tamar looked at Annie with a worried expression . |
| 6 | He turned away to greet a man slouching by . |
| 7 | Giving him a look of disgust , she turned away to get a cup and saucer out of the cupboard . |
| 8 | Then he raced away to find a doctor . |
| 9 | ‘ THERE were no political reasons behind this , it 's just vandalism , ’ Pavel Edelstein said , looking around the remains of the Pribram Jewish cemetery before turning away to engage a group of old women in conversation . |
| 10 | As for affirmations , well , when slogging away to meet a deadline I 've found that repeating , ‘ You 're tougher than you think ’ while gulping down a large glass of gin works a treat . |
| 11 | The excess is easily peeled away to leave a perfect matching join . |
| 12 | The unwanted side strips can then be peeled away to reveal a perfect seam . |
| 13 | With more petulance then penitence he described how he had noticed Sean 's knife as the barman was called away to serve a customer . |
| 14 | He said nothing ; he put the phone down and walked away to get a bus . |
| 15 | Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results . |
| 16 | Borne away to commence a decade of training in the School of Assassins , she had stubbornly insisted longer than most recruits on maintaining her identity . |
| 17 | Five of his colleagues backed the change of policy , but two broke away to form a new party . |
| 18 | He was distracted by the stragglers being rounded up , and when a little girl broke away to chase a pigeon , her small hands outstretched and her face uplifted with delighted laughter , he looked ready to sweep the child up in his arms . |
| 19 | I considered slipping away to chew a mouthful of toothpowder . |
| 20 | The ‘ physiological ’ aspects of the work ( which functions both by analogy and by connotation ) can be seen particularly in number 11 of the series where the paint area in the centre of the throat is scraped away to reveal a box-shaped cavity marked with iridescent crimson . |
| 21 | The earth had to be scraped away to uncover a trap door . |
| 22 | Under a slab of rock which lay propped at an angle the earth had been scraped away to make a shallow burrow and lying in it , curled up comfortably on his side like a sleeping dormouse was a boy . |
| 23 | The rampart front itself was subsequently cut away to accommodate a massive stone wall set on a foundation of limestone , clay and rubble lenses , which presumably incorporated the existing tower at the south-east gate . |
| 24 | Triton shells are frequently found in shrines , and with the narrow end cut away to make a mouthpiece . |
| 25 | Hoc nodded dumbly as his brother sped away to fetch a spade and rope from the cat 's quarters . |
| 26 | Then , slowly , in spasms , the skies dilute like saturated watercolours and bleed away to let a pale frail lemon sun shine through . |
| 27 | As Wightman , who admitted rape , was taken away to begin a seven-year jail sentence his victim screamed : ‘ You bastard . |
| 28 | There were cigarette burns on the carpet , and here and there the brown of the walls had been rubbed away to reveal a pinkish surface beneath . |
| 29 | He failed to control the ball when intercepting a pass from Chris Malkin 30 yards from goal and Pat Nevin nipped in and slipped away to guide a shot inside goalkeeper Kevin Poole and the near post . |
| 30 | Her romantic self-projection is pared away to reveal a character at once complacent , grasping , disingenuous and manipulative … . |