Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] away from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 2 | At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland . |
| 3 | Her three children , Karen , 25 , Nicki , 23 , and Mark , 21 , all lived away from home . |
| 4 | Ten athletes trained by Long came away from the North-East Championships with ten medals , including five golds . |
| 5 | The little woman suddenly broke away from him , ran across the ill-paved road towards her , tripped on the broken pavement , fell on to her knees before Sally-Anne , and , face wild , looked up at her imploringly , wailing , ‘ Help me , missis , please help me . |
| 6 | In 1944 , Williams published an expanded version of his thesis under the title ‘ Capitalism and Slavery ’ , and in doing so broke away from the imperial tradition of historiography on the subject of the abolition of slavery . |
| 7 | On returning to the surface , he carelessly looked away from where he had placed the briar and a snake ate it , whole . |
| 8 | And when he suddenly rolled away from her , she was absolutely horrified . |
| 9 | As he reached the bottom the whole boat suddenly heaved away from him , so that the washboard at the top rolled out of sight and a quite new reach of sky appeared . |
| 10 | one woman , sorry , that literally ran away from us . |
| 11 | ‘ We have n't heard from Peter today , ’ Marc pointed out after the conversation eventually veered away from theatrical things . |
| 12 | And the fact that I soon got away from it . |
| 13 | It just as is the want of sheep , it just wandered away from one clump of grass to another , losing all sense of time and direction until it , was lost ! |
| 14 | And the anointed heir of the British utilitarian tradition , James Mill 's son , John Stuart , soon moved away from the robust democratic faith of his early mentors . |
| 15 | To uncouple , the hook was held in the off position from a lever in the cab , and the tractor just drove away from it . |
| 16 | As they finally drove away from the scene , Paddy Mayne was observed to jump out of his jeep , run across to a parked aircraft and place a bomb on the wing . |
| 17 | No , she just turned away from her did n't |
| 18 | By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door . |
| 19 | As a boy I liked the impressionists , but I soon turned away from them . |
| 20 | In 1924 , Leese joined the British Fascists , but more as an anti-socialist and anti-semite , and his Stamford group soon broke away from the mainstream Fascist movement . |
| 21 | But my enduring thoughts as I finally flew away from the Cape Verdian sunshine back to Britain was that these people deserve to succeed . |
| 22 | She was shaking when his mouth finally drifted away from hers , her heart beating with increased rapidity as he smiled down into her flushed face , gazing intently at her dark-pupilled eyes with their luminous circles of grey iris . |
| 23 | As a Social Security Minister , the Prime Minister devastatingly took away from young people the right to income support . |
| 24 | The one Johnson 's enthusiasm faded and he soon drifted away from the sport ; the other had his first competitive contest in the following January and so began one of the longest and least celebrated ring careers in British boxing . |
| 25 | He just ran away from it all , sobbing until he thought he would choke . |
| 26 | I had an argument with my mother and I just ran away from home and came here without telling her . |
| 27 | Curtailed in his researches he may have been , but Gould still came away from the parched furnace of the scrubs with some of the rarest novelties yet of his collection and a vast number of specimens of every description . |
| 28 | Because much of Buick 's success is based on sales to the over-50s , its target customers will eventually be replaced by greying baby-boomers — the very customers it once steered away from . |
| 29 | Here the men who streamed into the new ‘ self-improvement ’ associations ( Bildungsvereine ) in the 1860s — there were 1,000 such clubs in 1863 , no less than 2,000 in Bavaria alone by 1872 — rapidly drifted away from the middle-class liberalism of these bodies , though perhaps not sufficiently from the middle-class culture they inculcated . |
| 30 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |