Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] the [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 | It might seem too easy to him just to slip away into the fantasy world of death . ’ |
| 4 | There was a small queue at the rear exit as the men waited to slip away into the night . |
| 5 | The sentry took advantage of the pause to slip away into the undergrowth . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He fled away into the brightness where we could not follow . ’ |
| 9 | Entwined snakes of gold and scarlet streamed through each other as the sail , rolling and writhing , fled away on the wind . |
| 10 | He frowned as the waiter hesitated , then gasped with shock as the man , his nerve gone , fled away from the room . |
| 11 | Bake for 1¼ hrs until firm and shrinking away from the sides of the tin . |
| 12 | Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter 's shop . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's come away from the zip er er I do n't know whether it 's er |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Several times deer crashed away through the undergrowth on their approach , leaping up and down over obstacles . |
| 20 | In freedom , he managed to hide away in the wilds and educate himself . |
| 21 | A path wound away from the house , leading through the ridges and furrows of fields long left to nature . |
| 22 | The road wound away from the Martin farm into the outskirts of the village . |
| 23 | As sad as I am at being wrenched away from the telly , I am led to the bar . |
| 24 | His only serious challenger was E.S.B. , but Devon Loch was a length to the good at the last fence and started to pull away up the run-in , over a quarter of a mile long . |
| 25 | These had probably been caused as Trixie tried to pull away from the heater . |
| 26 | Those of you who are still concerned about our results should take comfort in the fact that these are early days and with the season barely three-quarters over we still have ten games remaining in which to pull away from the bottom . |
| 27 | United need the points to pull away from the bottom . |
| 28 | Show her how to pull away from the body as she pulls the zip up , so other clothes do n't get caught in it . |
| 29 | Although earnings prospects all over Europe are still excellent the balance has now been slightly tipped away from the equity markets . |
| 30 | The damage that I once managed to inflict was to bend on of the metal strips away from the needle . |