Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you chat too long with a particular parent , it means others have to slip away without a word . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her tameness drops away like a spring moult , and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else . |
| 4 | So I bet he 's come away with a quarter of a million ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 10 | ‘ Belgium have won all their four games so far and we need to come away with a share of the spoils . ’ |
| 11 | It was a disappointing display and we were fortunate to come away with a point . |
| 12 | He admitted last night : ‘ We will do well to come away with a point this time . |
| 13 | He is also charged with driving away from a filling station without paying for petrol . |
| 14 | This is the story of a young man who falls in love with a girl as he is driving away from a car park . |
| 15 | He 'd spotted two men driving away from a securicor van parked outside Bookers cash and carry centre in cheltenham . |
| 16 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 17 | Those unfortunate enough to be carried away after a crackdown are uncertain whether they will return alive . |
| 18 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |
| 19 | Non-resonant absorption of a photon , in which both surplus energy and surplus linear momentum are carried away by a photon of lower energy , is a much less favorable process . |
| 20 | The policeman 's dog ( breed unidentified in Flaubert 's version ) was n't carried away by a torrent ; it just drowned in deep water . |
| 21 | And he cited two papers , co-authored by Derek Bryce-Smith , professor of organic chemistry at the University of Reading , as being the result of ‘ individual scientists who have got rather carried away in a flush of enthusiasm . ’ |
| 22 | There were two black entertainers banging away at a piano . |
| 23 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 24 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 28 | She broke off as if afraid of being overheard and moved away with a nod and a wave . |
| 29 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
| 30 | As in France under the Fifth Republic , West Germany moved away from a system of political parties based on class , religious and constitutional differences . |