Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 2 | I made ready to slip away down the passage . |
| 3 | If you chat too long with a particular parent , it means others have to slip away without a word . |
| 4 | It might seem too easy to him just to slip away into the fantasy world of death . ’ |
| 5 | There was a small queue at the rear exit as the men waited to slip away into the night . |
| 6 | The sentry took advantage of the pause to slip away into the undergrowth . |
| 7 | Some who were working intended to slip away for an hour or so . |
| 8 | She glimpsed again that girlish figure momentarily outlined against the walls of the abbey only to slip away like a wraith and be lost among the shadows of the beach . |
| 9 | It is the custom , you understand , for the bride and groom to slip away from the wedding during the evening celebration , and hide somewhere — at a friend 's for example . ’ |
| 10 | Her tameness drops away like a spring moult , and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else . |
| 11 | The average Nd isotopic compositions of central Atlantic OIB correlate with their respective average Sm/Nd ( Fig. 3 d ) , although the average Madeira composition lies away from the trend defined by the other islands . |
| 12 | He fled away into the brightness where we could not follow . ’ |
| 13 | Entwined snakes of gold and scarlet streamed through each other as the sail , rolling and writhing , fled away on the wind . |
| 14 | He frowned as the waiter hesitated , then gasped with shock as the man , his nerve gone , fled away from the room . |
| 15 | Bake for 1¼ hrs until firm and shrinking away from the sides of the tin . |
| 16 | Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter 's shop . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So I bet he 's come away with a quarter of a million ! |
| 21 | While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology . |
| 22 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 23 | It 's come away from the zip er er I do n't know whether it 's er |
| 24 | Mr Widmer praised the minister for his ‘ sympathetic attitude ’ and said the company had come away from the meeting re-assured that it would not be forced to move . |
| 25 | Plaster had come away from the walls from ceiling to floor , and along the lower part the bared cement , originally grey , was stained yellow and smelt of urine . |
| 26 | It 's the first time I 've come away from an exhibition thinking that the exhibition as such was stupid . |
| 27 | Several times deer crashed away through the undergrowth on their approach , leaping up and down over obstacles . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , Mr Algernon ! ’ exclaimed Mildred with relief , and before he had time to hide away under a stone , as he usually did , she shot a hand into the water and scooped him up . |
| 29 | In freedom , he managed to hide away in the wilds and educate himself . |
| 30 | 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 . |