Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely veers away from the subject of relationships ( ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ , |
| 2 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 3 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 4 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 5 | A small friendly old pub pleasantly furnished and discreetly tucked away behind The Scotsman office . |
| 6 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An hour later , Tracy and Miss Ludlow helped him secretly slip away from the hospital to spend two days in a secluded Miami retreat soaking up the sun before returning to Newmarket . |
| 9 | As you catch a wave and accelerate down its face you vigorously steer away from the wind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What does it mean when rape and sexual violence are no longer quite so hidden away from the public view ? |
| 13 | Throughout the training , landing out is usually treated as such a serious misdemeanour that the inexperienced pilot is often influenced into trying desperately hard to get back if he either inadvertently drifts away from the site or gets lost during a local soaring flight . |
| 14 | Betty , perhaps carried away by the association of ideas , was talking about flatulence . |
| 15 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 16 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 17 | A wash and brush up keeps the wheels in good shape … but sometimes mechanics can only sratch away at the problem . |
| 18 | Ten athletes trained by Long came away from the North-East Championships with ten medals , including five golds . |
| 19 | But as those boxing her in came away from the rails at the entrance to the home stretch she found a good run up the inside , and when Teleprompter ran out of stamina with just over a furlong to go Pat Eddery shot the favourite into the lead and made for the wire . |
| 20 | But he simply listened , said he was sympathetic , and that Chris could not be expelled , only moved away from the parish . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Then you 'd better keep away from the disco , ’ said Willis . |
| 22 | ‘ And the second time in Norfolk you took a bullet in the right shoulder and only got away by the skin of your teeth , leaving Kurt Steiner behind . ’ |
| 23 | There were fewer beggars under the arcades , perhaps scared away by the patrolling police , and by the awe-inspiring Civil Guards in their black-lacquered headgear and solemnly swinging capes . |
| 24 | There was blood on the ground from the exit wound which had not been entirely washed away by the overnight rain . |
| 25 | The square was gently raised away from the face . |
| 26 | ‘ Had been suddenly called away to the funeral of a close relative ? |
| 27 | Inevitably this proximity involved a fair amount of touching and occasional pressures , which the man found very much to his taste , and which the young woman at least did not object to sufficiently to draw away to the limits of her corner . |
| 28 | As built by Franklin the outer stumps were so slanted away from the middle that the balls were only precariously balanced . |
| 29 | I suppose there must be a warring side to your nature constantly bubbling away under the surface . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |