Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Men in small firms experience an earlier and lower peak growth rate which very quickly drops away after the twenty-fifth year of service .
2 And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth .
3 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 .
4 I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion .
5 Cole ( 1986 ) has investigated twelve high-use and twelve low-use campsites located away from the main tourist access routes in three desert vegetation types consisting of desert scrub , catclaw ( Acacia greggi ) and piñon-juniper ( Pinus edulie–Juniperus osteosperma ) communities .
6 Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ?
7 The lock itself seemed good , though wrenched away by the forced entry .
8 The line is wrenched away by the locked jaw of the sea dog below .
9 With fine forceps , the entire AER was teased away from the left limb and discarded , causing no obvious damage to underlying mesenchyme .
10 Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute .
11 Fun 's the last thing I feel like ! ’ she replied swiftly , trying to pull away from the deceptive strength of his hold .
12 They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them .
13 As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount .
14 Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings .
15 Parts of the rudder which sank away from the main hull corroded as could be expected , so the answer must lie with the hull itself .
16 ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack .
17 And she was right there , too , but Clara was beyond the rights and wrongs of the case , blissfully carried away into the angry , amoral world of combat , wonderfully disconnected from truth and falsehood , freed from gratitude by meanness , released from effort by knowledge of fruitless impossibility .
18 So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise .
19 I for one did not get carried away with the Triple Crown hype after the ‘ splendour ’ of the victory over Wales ( for which your publication was equally responsible ) .
20 The British traveller and journalist , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace , believed Alexander " had inherited from his father a strong dislike to sentimentalism and rhetoric of all kinds " and that " This dislike , joined to a goodly portion of sober common-sense , a limited confidence in his own judgment , and a consciousness of enormous responsibility , prevented him from being carried away by the prevailing excitement " with which his reign began .
21 It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there .
22 Under duress from external events , she practised collective Cabinet government in something approaching the traditional form , though David Howell , at that time Secretary of State for Transport , cautions against being carried away by the collective theme :
23 We can get carried away by the sheer attractiveness of the deal or temptation and overlook that priority .
24 It seems that , carried away by the feverish and bellicose atmosphere which was evident both on the streets of Paris and in the Assembly , Ollivier and Gramont strayed from the prepared text , firm but non-provocative in tone , and proceeded to make its content more aggressive .
25 You need to pace yourself , so that you do not get carried away by the never-ending tasks that could fill your day with frenetic activity .
26 He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria .
27 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 .
28 Once I had said my thanks and farewells to William and to the immense policeman who had silently accompanied us throughout the afternoon , I headed away down the rutted tracks , rather glad to be back on the road and off back to Panama City .
29 It headed away from the distant airport building , a single-storey edifice , away from the main road to Rovaniemi , heading east cross-country into the wilderness .
30 Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark .
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