Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A brick wall about six feet high stretched away into the blackness of trees to right and left . |
| 2 | Motoring : Miles of smiles as the diesel comes of age : Brett Fraser on the Citroen AX , which offers fuel economy without much sacrifice in performance to drivers willing to turn away from the petrol engine |
| 3 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 4 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 5 | And poor Soapy walked away with the young woman , who still held on to his arm . |
| 6 | When the ceremony was over , Sabine slipped away from the congratulations and laughter , and the clicking cameras outside the church , and drove back to Les Hiboux . |
| 7 | Whether you disagree profoundly with his interpretations , as I sometimes do , or take them all for what they are , it is almost impossible to break away from the spell of his playing which is , at very worst , interesting . |
| 8 | The activated enzyme was then supposed to eat away at the synaptic membrane so as to expose more NMDA receptor sites which , until thus exposed , remain buried in the membrane surface and hence inactive . |
| 9 | She was glad to get away from the shop for a short while and she felt confident about leaving the baby in Fred 's charge . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm glad to get away from the camp , ’ he said . |
| 11 | He was glad to get away from the brooding perplexity of the honest official . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ The teacher is one of the very people who were glad to get away from the CTC and find employment in a properly-run county school . |
| 13 | This , we are told , is to ensure that errors made in the laying of tesserae would be most likely to occur away from the focus of the mosaic . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ensure a slope of 1 in 40 for drainage , and be sure to slope away from the house |
| 16 | Traditionally pacifists had looked to the evolution of a transnational civil society and the gradual withering away of the nation state as the key to human progress — a view elaborated most influentially by Richard Cobden . |
| 17 | It is reported that Mrs Thatcher has been keen to ensure that those promoted are sympathetic to her scale of values or are not unwilling to break away from the style of middle-of-the-road consensus policies that have predominated in recent years . |
| 18 | Sometimes it is good to get away from the particular disciplines of our own medium and techniques and try something else . |
| 19 | ‘ It is just brilliant to get away from the image of Charlene in Neighbours . |
| 20 | But , for those happy to amble away from the beaches , Torbole is also surrounded by miles of peaceful lakeside trails and paths leading to waterfalls and mountain villages . |
| 21 | With demands for devolution resurfacing , this problem is unlikely to go away in the foreseeable future . |
| 22 | PC World 's customer profile breaks down into those who know what they want but want to see it demonstrated and to be able to walk away with the product ; those who know a bit , but have never bought a computer before ; and corporate customers seeking the best value for money . |
| 23 | Both were able to walk away from the wreckage but were taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment . |
| 24 | Labour supporters must be in despair at not being able to race away from the Tories in the run up to the election . |
| 25 | Designed by Derek Gardner , it was a world-beater ; by the time it was fully developed during the 1971 season , Jackie was again able to run away with the championship , scoring nearly twice as many points as his nearest rival , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 26 | However , it was also unable to run away from the peace process since the dangers of doing nothing were even greater . |
| 27 | In 1918 , a majority of the county 's miners voted for its replacement by a day-rate system , but there were differences within the workforce over its implementation and the colliery companies were reluctant to change away from the butty system ( Griffin , 1962 , pp. 53–4 ) . |
| 28 | Senior Tories were unwise to stay away from the forum . |
| 29 | Under PNP , schools have been able to break away from the traditional conception of primary school professional life centring on just two roles : those of head and class teacher . |
| 30 | The site made use of the Mount Royal tunnel and of the considerable falling away of the land , so that although the platforms were below the station building , none the less they were above ground . |