Example sentences of "[verb] away on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entwined snakes of gold and scarlet streamed through each other as the sail , rolling and writhing , fled away on the wind . |
| 2 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 3 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 4 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 5 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 6 | They have to explain that although they 're priests they 're really not credulous nitwits , and then they feel they have to go further and they end up writing books about it and yapping away on the television . ’ |
| 7 | It was April , and after a warmer in Poosie Nansie 's , another West of Scotland custom , we thrashed away on the Ayr , casting amongst chunks of ice floating down the river ; frozen stiff , getting colder and colder as the grey day grew older and older . |
| 8 | An electric fan heater thrummed away on the floor next to the table while the two bars of the electric fire in the hearth burned like red-hot pokers . |
| 9 | The last chime quivered away on the night air , and from somewhere behind the bar emerged the local hero , Miguelito the mystery man . |
| 10 | It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold . |
| 11 | The primary bevels were ground back and feathered away on the grindstone , taking care not to overheat and destroy the temper . |
| 12 | Not only did he treat everyone in sight but also led nightly singsongs by thumping away on the pub piano . |
| 13 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 14 | Her words were barely audible , so light that they threatened to float away on the breeze . |
| 15 | Helen , alarmed and suspecting infidelity ( there had been an episode in the past concerning which Louise had boiled away on the telephone for months on end ) , asked what was wrong with him . |
| 16 | Tucked away on the fringes of Nottingham are areas such as Hockley and Bridlesmith Gate which have become thriving centres for high fashion , continental cafes , antiques and contemporary art and craft shops . |
| 17 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 18 | Make certain the coup l'aire is safely moved away on the ships . ’ |
| 19 | As Magee tugged it free a large lump of bone came away on the end of the knife . |
| 20 | You sail away on the seas and I 'll commune with my spirit . |
| 21 | Yeah it 's jus well I 'm going away on the Thursday before Easter , so perhaps on the Wednesday morning |
| 22 | On the Saturday I was seen off by Ada , the Shelleys going away on the Friday night . |
| 23 | Parliament may make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris but he may puff away on the Montparnasse with impunity ( until , that is , he arrives at Dover ) . |
| 24 | When Gloria came , pattering across the ward in all her best , Dot could n't bear to see her pretty face and turned away on the pillow with shut eyes . |
| 25 | She walked through into the Lancaster Room again , where Phil Aldrich was still scribbling away on the hotel 's notepaper ; and for the moment ( as Sheila stood in the doorway ) looking up with his wonted patience and nodding mildly as Janet propounded her latest views on the injustice of the tour 's latest delay . |
| 26 | Plodding away on the ground with our instruments and synoptic charts , we were not really aware of the significance and desperation of the events taking place in the skies over western Europe . |
| 27 | As the pre-gig DJ 's preference for tunes by the likes of Carter and Senseless Things attests , the Inspirals have stowed away on the bus reserved for hardworking merchants of no-nonsense , boys ' own indie-rock , and their new home seems to suit them . |
| 28 | She did n't know if Betty knew how long Beuno had been there , so endeavoured to give the impression that she could babble away on the topic of cooking game for hours at a time . |
| 29 | Pearce 's screams were borne away on the wind . |
| 30 | She had nearly melted away on the spot . |