Example sentences of "[vb past] away [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 4 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |
| 5 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
| 6 | She broke off as if afraid of being overheard and moved away with a nod and a wave . |
| 7 | As in France under the Fifth Republic , West Germany moved away from a system of political parties based on class , religious and constitutional differences . |
| 8 | Mrs Healy moved away like a ship under full sail . |
| 9 | He nodded , then turned and rode away at a canter . |
| 10 | Looking round for Blackberry , he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool , where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit . |
| 11 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 12 | TORY back-benchers last night shied away from a rebellion over the Budget imposition of value-added tax on domestic fuel . |
| 13 | Then he loped away as a hound came running silently through the trees , nose to the ground , scenting slowly . |
| 14 | Ben got away to a really fast start and there was no heading him . |
| 15 | Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds . |
| 16 | Mac got away to a quite blistering start . |
| 17 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 18 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 19 | The perpetrator , the young Rugby lock , Smith , got away with a stern lecture from referee Steve Lander , who had been alerted to the incident by his touch judge . |
| 20 | SOCCER player Paul Pullen got away with a foul … his identical twin was sent off instead . |
| 21 | BLUEBIRD : The thief got away with a nest-egg |
| 22 | Fellow countryman Luis Mendoza got away with a draw — but in the return Palacio was halted in the third round . |
| 23 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 24 | A BRITISH villain who got away with a £292 million haul in the world 's biggest mugging was murdered by a Mafia hitman . |
| 25 | ‘ Jamie got away with a black eye . |
| 26 | Raiders got away with a quantity of drugs , including adrenaline hydrochloride , hydrocortisone and cocaine between 1pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday . |
| 27 | And they got away with a large quantity of tools and car batteries . |
| 28 | Those who got away with a Heimatschuss ( a ’ blighty wound ‘ ) say they were lucky . ’ |
| 29 | Police at Ames , Iowa , are looking for a one-legged burglar who stole a three-legged Labrador dog from an electrical contracting business and got away in a stolen pick-up truck . |
| 30 | Tyrone Evans had been brought into the court 's car park when he overpowered his guard and got away in a blue Renault . |