Example sentences of "[verb] away like a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Her tameness drops away like a spring moult , and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Mrs Healy moved away like a ship under full sail . |
7 | Our friend from the smoke , vigorously lashing away like a cab driver whipping a lazy horse , caught three . |
8 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
9 | The stage is tucked away like a box in the wall . |
10 | Gloomy prognostications of Aethelbald 's life being in danger of passing away like a shadow and his soul into eternal perdition — although conventionally expressed — imply an unhappy conclusion to his life as a real possibility . |
11 | ‘ I 'm sure I would , ’ he said , and she felt almost overcome by a tide of relief because it was all right , at last he understood … and then he took his two hands away from hers on the table , and his smile and his entire attitude dropped away like a paper mask . |
12 | It probably was n't bubbling and smoking away like a witch 's cauldron but I certainly remember it that way What was it ? |
13 | ‘ Telekinesis ’ roars away like a kamikaze jet nearing target . |
14 | One little rascal had picked up a cigarette-end , still burning ( called a dog-end , or dout ) and was puffing away like a steam engine . |
15 | Though his body was sweeling away like a torrent on a cliff |
16 | I flew over Paddy 's shoulders , bounced off the bonnet and rushed away like a madman . |
17 | Instead of stealing away like a thief in the night ! |
18 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
19 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
20 | Nevertheless , the future of her career was a constant background worry as the days and weeks of her appointment at Rummidge ticked away like a taxi meter . |
21 | It was all very peaceful : Mister Johnny 's voice bubbling away like a lark and the sun on the hay field and on the tall-chimneyed house and on the quiet mountain behind it . |
22 | The lashings holding the Zodiac snapped , and the inflatable spun away like a Frisbee . |
23 | Your heart 's ticking away like a clock . |
24 | But there is no further time for speculation and reflection on the Enlightenment , because one of the false views of humanity ( the collectivist kind ) , after ticking away like a time bomb , explodes in a political event of such fury and consequence that the gentle yet élitist world of the Enlightenment philosophers is destroyed for ever . |
25 | To be deprived of freedom and of choice was the final fear , and Eleanor Thorne had been carted away like a splitting and discarded mattress beside someone 's dustbin . |
26 | Thrown away like a candy wrapper , thrown away like trash . |
27 | Hopelessness and reluctance are blown away like a fog and the dumb solitude where they crept , a place desolate as a crack in the ground , opens like a rose and stretches to the hills and the sky . |
28 | The vast heath stretched away like a sea , beyond this one wide street . |
29 | ‘ Stella Maris , ’ he muttered against her hair , and jumped away like a fish leaping on a bank . |
30 | If she eased up on this will for just a moment , love would fly away like a bird released from its cage . |