Example sentences of "[verb] away at the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 3 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 4 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 5 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 6 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 7 | Ahead children lay like bundles of clothing on the edge of the road , only rolling away at the last hoot . |
| 8 | His scams and cons , however , are not always abortive and the profit he makes is not always snatched away at the last minute . |
| 9 | The announcement will end months of acrimony after it appeared that a guarantee to base the centre in the city would be snatched away at the 11th hour . |
| 10 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |