Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] away [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not lose interest and let the end of a sentence fade away as you scan your notes for the next remark . |
| 2 | I thought you 'd got a bit carried away when you were drawing them . ’ |
| 3 | In the match of the tournament , Drake took the first set 6–3 only to see his advantage melt away as Alger powered his way back into the reckoning with a blistering 6–1 win in the second . |
| 4 | As writer of a weekly newspaper column , he was allowed his own room in hotels , and from the corridor could be heard above the typewriter coughing away as he smoked one cigarette after another . |
| 5 | He took hundreds of photographs and Katy thought Cousin Jane and Mike must be tired of photographs too because they climbed into a white car and the car drove away while the man kept clicking his camera again and again . |
| 6 | Luce heard the engine start and the boat roar away as she obeyed Rosa 's respectful injunction to , ‘ Please come this way . ’ |
| 7 | The black car soared away as mangled fragments spiralled into the sky . |
| 8 | The 2 RRP patrol gave chase , but a white car pulled away before they could reach them . |
| 9 | There was one with a monkey in too , crammed in this little shell with the side cut away so you could see in . |
| 10 | She made no attempt to move away as his arms slipped round her . |
| 11 | The panda ran away because he was n't getting enough ! |
| 12 | Nevertheless , Rangers were grateful that Alan McDonald was under the bar to head away after John Cooke had eluded Kenny Sansom . |
| 13 | Charlie could feel his heart pumping away as the colour-sergeant knocked quietly on the door . |
| 14 | CHEADLE , flags holders , league champions and unbeaten for more than two years , did not allow their proud record to slip away as they beat Heaton Mersey 15–12 in the final of the Daily Telegraph Senior Flags final at Didsbury yesterday . |
| 15 | The more she thought about it , the more her confidence ebbed away until she was ready to believe that her efforts had turned up nothing of positive help . |
| 16 | The back fist unrolls from the shoulder , propelled as much by the body turning away as by the arm action itself . |
| 17 | As time passes C t increases to ω and this period of temporary imitation dwindles away as play tends to the full information limit . |
| 18 | A living legend passed away when Ferdinando Keast died in 1891 , aged 87 . |
| 19 | Meik saw her chance to slip away whilst the going was good . |
| 20 | It was interesting to observe how they arrived full of animation and determined to be good and entertaining guests and then to watch the slightly false vivacity fade away as the melin had its usual effect . |
| 21 | The bluebottle swung away as though surprised to find space again . |
| 22 | I only pray heaven she may not take it into her head to run away while I am out of reach ! ’ |
| 23 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 24 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 25 | The cab drew to a halt , and Grunte , who was ten minutes early , let the meter tick away as he watched the girls bending and stretching to the commands of a whistle-blowing games mistress . |
| 26 | It was not only the houses and buildings that were affected , there were also many cars and vans that had to stop their journeys and wait hoping the water start to drain away so they would be able to reach their destination . |
| 27 | Generally , a broad-band radio receiver works best with the receiver held in the air , with the signal fading away when the aerial is brought near the ground . |
| 28 | It can then tell you if the ferret moves away as you dig towards it . |
| 29 | I found keyboard control to be better because other keys such as ‘ weapon select ’ and ‘ shields ’ are only a finger stretch away if you are on the keyboard . |
| 30 | The thunder rolled away as Mr Beckenham stared , leaving the place eerily silent , and his heart still . |