Example sentences of "[vb infin] away [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He comes on a bit slow , sometimes , and the old turbine up top does n't always chug away like a Lamborghini , but he gets there , he gets there . |
| 2 | Let your tack dry away from a direct source of heat ; do n't put it in front of a radiator or fire , or the leather will become brittle . |
| 3 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 4 | Sometimes she would stay away for a day or two . |
| 5 | And if I could n't make away with myself , how could the malais make away with a whole nation ? |
| 6 | A charcuterie in Aurillac or Vic-sur-Cère or some other small but locally important town will possibly provide a pâté the like of which you never tasted before , or a locally cured ham , a few slices of which you will buy and carry away with a salad , a kilo of peaches , a bottle of Monbazillac and a baton of bread , and somewhere on a hillside amid the mile upon mile of golden broom or close to a splashing waterfall you will have , just for once , the ideal picnic . |
| 7 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 8 | They usually run them at below peak efficiency , they run The Russian reactors they tend to run 'em at maximum efficiency which is you 're very very close to the critical level where it could run away with a little mistake and whoops , you got Chernobyl . |
| 9 | And nor , she might have added , did she run away from a fight . |
| 10 | Some people ca n't keep away from a deathbed . |
| 11 | She clung to him and laughed a little through her sobs , and he said : ‘ We shall float away on a tide of your tears if you 're not careful . |
| 12 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 13 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 14 | He did move away for a while er and had er workrooms away from the , from the house and I just ran the , the shop . |
| 15 | A soft dog would cower , perhaps holding his foot up to let you know that he has been hurt and even if you move towards him to apologize , he will move away with a worried expression . |
| 16 | Seconds later they heard the Armstrong start and move away with a screech of tyres . |
| 17 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 18 | One could move away from a straightforward ‘ bipolar ’ system , in which each side has only one of two options . |
| 19 | As the MIND report concludes , not only must the system be made more user friendly , but it must move away from a supply-led to a consumer-oriented approach . |
| 20 | My personal hope is that we shall move away from a formalised dichotonomy of university and non-university institutions , and that there will be a less obvious division : two groups of educational organisations with parity of esteem in the public mind . |
| 21 | She is becoming Burma 's most famous non-person , much to the anger of the military , who were hoping she would fade away as a political force . |
| 22 | Perhaps she could fade away in a faded villa like the Villa Fiesole where the Durance coterie had faded to nothing . |
| 23 | As a rationalist , I had but to snap my rational fingers , it might be argued , and the devil would fade away in a puff of smoke . |
| 24 | But what racing could give after one good day , it could take away after a bad one . |
| 25 | She took another breath and yelled , ‘ Hi , there ! ’ at the top of her voice , banging on the door with both fists as she did so — And heard the sound die away into a profound and unresponsive silence . |
| 26 | Guitars that have been MIDI'ed do n't really branch away from a guitar player 's technique . |
| 27 | A plan occurred to her ; she and Lucy would go away for a weekend to the heart of the country , roses round the door , and find out how they would be lovers . |
| 28 | We could go away for a weekend together , we could ; we could wake up next morning and eat croissants and drink coffee from blue china bowls . |
| 29 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 30 | ‘ We could go away for a bit — a break ; a couple of weeks perhaps . |