Example sentences of "[verb] away on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carried away on a rushing tide of dark enchantment , she quivered as his tongue caressed her skin , his mouth feather-light as it brushed enticingly , back and forth , over her swollen nipples . |
| 2 | Chugging away on a floppy . |
| 3 | Tucked away on a quiet , sunny square just 50 yards from the lagoon , this is a fresh , modern hotel adorned with many original paintings by the owner 's wife . |
| 4 | Maybe it 's tucked away on a high shelf somewhere . ’ |
| 5 | Pick up some tubes of Daler-Rowney 's Designer Gouache and you could find yourself whisked away on a colourful trip to Venice and Rome . |
| 6 | No ; it was the romance of the whole thing that was getting to her ; after all , it was n't every day you were whisked away on a white charger … well , a modern car made a good substitute . |
| 7 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 8 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 9 | Go through an unobtrusive door at the back of the Trent Bridge pavilion then turn left into a book-lined room , and on any match day you 'll find the central table occupied by the owner of a moustache of impressively Victorian dimensions , like as not tapping away on a venerable-looking typewriter . |
| 10 | Stowing away on a space-faring mining vessel is all very well , but getting caught scrounging Liquorice Allsorts from a deactivated android … ‘ just say no ’ kids , it 'll save more than your teeth ! |
| 11 | After all , he was the chief scientist on board the boat , it was his $250,000 paying for this month-long expedition ( this research vessel cost $7000 a day to run ) , and he was getting a little nervous out there , all by himself , getting colder by the second and drifting away on a little piece of ice . |
| 12 | Bulkier things like sofas can be delivered or whisked away on a rented roof-rack . |
| 13 | However , if you make an effort to be positive , you 'll get swept away on a tidal wave of valid enthusiasm . |
| 14 | A moor hen 's nest floating away on a swollen tyke told a sad story . |
| 15 | For instance , the classic tactic of demanding an adjournment should not be thrown away on a low level aim , such as ‘ let's have coffee ’ . |