Example sentences of "[v-ing] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 2 | Bake for 1¼ hrs until firm and shrinking away from the sides of the tin . |
| 3 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 4 | In 1728 he established a farm at Kingsessing near Philadelphia , with six acres sloping away to the river in the south-west for a garden and where horticultural work in due course supplanted his pursuit of agriculture . |
| 5 | A black-and-white Tudor manor house , separated by a gravelled car park from a modern two-storey extension mocked up to resemble stables ; lawns behind sloping away towards the wooded flanks of the Surrey hills ; the colours of St. George hanging limply from a flagstaff ; three geese in flight across a swash-lettered nameboard ; and smoke pluming vertically from slender chimney stacks . |
| 6 | This is a small garden , on an awkward plot measuring just 45ft by 27ft ( 14m by 8m ) , facing north east and sloping away from the house . |
| 7 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 8 | Driving away into the city streets , she 'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life . |
| 9 | ‘ I imagined kidnapping you , driving away into the mountains to some remote spot and forcing you to say you 'd forgive and forget . |
| 10 | From the stack of suitcases strapped on the overhead rack and the fact that they were driving away from the coast I guessed they were returning from a holiday . |
| 11 | Furthermore the referee , Colin Hawke , from New Zealand , ruined the game as a spectacle by blasting away in the whistle almost non-stop , awarding a penalty or a free-kick every two minutes or so , mostly against Scotland . |
| 12 | The advance was to have been made during the hours of darkness and across country , keeping away from the roads and lanes . |
| 13 | He had never liked Queen Yolande with her haughty airs and fastidious manner , locking herself up at Kinghorn Manor and keeping away from the King . |
| 14 | He had walked the length of the state , his waterskin slung over his shoulder , keeping away from the roads and the gangcults . |
| 15 | This was even more embarrassing , for Donleavy 's strictures about keeping away from the embassy had focussed particularly on the risks of associating with the Drug Enforcement Administration 's ‘ cowboys ’ , the DIA 's contempt for the CIA under William Casey being exceeded only by its detestation of the DEA . |
| 16 | A report in the International Herald Tribune at the end of August suggested that the Khmers Rouges were keeping away from the UN disarmament process because their forces had grown so small that they would lose influence if the numbers were made public . |
| 17 | Church bells sounded across the city and as they crossed the road they could see two brightly painted barges chugging away up the canal beneath the overhanging willows . |
| 18 | If I understand him aright , it ought to be possible to show that Descartes ' stripping away of the ‘ accidental ’ qualities of objects is illegitimate , because based on a series of elisions of meaning between one use of an expression and another where the two expressions look the same but have different meanings . |
| 19 | Temperature was talked of in the context of some hundreds of millions of degrees Centigrade , necessary for the stripping away of the electron from the hydrogen atom , vital for the removal of the hydrostatic repulsive forces of the nuclei , leaving them free to collide . |
| 20 | The column stopped abruptly and when the noise of aircraft climbing away from the raid faded into the distance there was a short silence during which only the chug-chug of many stationary vehicles could be heard . |
| 21 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 22 | Carl is banging away at the drums , |
| 23 | They have to explain that although they 're priests they 're really not credulous nitwits , and then they feel they have to go further and they end up writing books about it and yapping away on the television . ’ |
| 24 | Bill was snoring away at the bar . |
| 25 | ‘ Time to wake up ’ I said to the threesome snoring away in the back of the support car . |
| 26 | On the far side of the tunnel , near the side of the line towards Bath , there was an immensely deep rock quarry , disused and deserted but containing some old equipment , rusting away at the bottom . |
| 27 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 28 | Wherever we have looked for savings , we have looked to trimming away at the centre and preserving those services that are delivered to the citizens in a direct way . |
| 29 | Ursula flicked a fragment of cigarette ash off the sleeve of her black dress and added , almost as an afterthought , ‘ Poor Maurice , ’ before turning and walking away towards the house . |
| 30 | ‘ Now , I must go and read the children that story I promised them , and then I 'll have to pack my case , ’ he added , clearly considering the subject closed as he patted her hand before rising from the couch and walking away towards the twins ' bedroom . |