Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fragile sanity crept away from the edge to cower inside the fortress of her orders . |
| 2 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 3 | It 's a long walk to Meall Corranaich and just before the top , the ridge splits away to the west which causes some confusion in poor visibility . |
| 4 | Our faith turns away from the search for personal security , which we all instinctively seek when we feel threatened , and leads us to abandon ourselves to God alone . |
| 5 | The route turns away from the Ffos-y-Mynach at Waun Lodi where the path is boggy and dangerous . |
| 6 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 7 | Nails screeched and popped , and the board juddered away at the bottom as something outside slammed against the wood . |
| 8 | I got a bit carried away with the Wogan show and all that . |
| 9 | No , not at all , and then , even in her confused state , her mind shied away from the reasons for her distaste , and she found herself saying even through her pain and shock , ‘ I will not think about that , I will not , ’ and so saying she stopped struggling and sank back into oblivion once more . |
| 10 | In Cristofori 's action the hammer points away from the player . |
| 11 | ‘ Time to wake up ’ I said to the threesome snoring away in the back of the support car . |
| 12 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 13 | As the car moved away from the Elizabethan pile Marler glanced in his wing mirror . |
| 14 | The driver closed the door behind him and moments later the car drew away from the road-block , heading south . |
| 15 | The boat moved away from the island and I waited until it was out at sea . |
| 16 | The engine of The Abbott sounded deafening in the silence , the loud spluttering replaced rapidly by a rumble as the boat moved away from the pier . |
| 17 | Laura said " used " because letters were no longer brought by the postman ; after he had fallen twice from Maurice 's ill-secured gangplank , the whole morning 's mail soaked away in the great river 's load of rubbish , the GPO , with every reason on its side , had notified the Reach that they could no longer undertake deliveries . |
| 18 | The pair were spawning on the vertical side of their chosen rock facing away from the front of the tank . |
| 19 | Bellybutton had thrown off Starkisser 's lines and now let the sportsboat float away from the pontoon as he unclipped her jet-black cockpit cover . |
| 20 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 21 | Pulling out of the ERM in September and letting the pound float away from the rest of the bunch now looks even smarter than it has in the interim — particularly in the light of Sweden 's experience . |
| 22 | With the switch facing away from the strings , the bass is in passive mode , where volume and treble response can be adjusted as usual . |
| 23 | ‘ Shelley — ’ But the last stroke had sounded , its echo drifting away into the night , and with a frown of anxiety , he pulled himself away from her and disappeared through the door . |
| 24 | He caught a glimpse of a tall thin figure moving away through the trees . |
| 25 | The bus rocked and skidded to a halt ; a horse-drawn delivery van close behind them swerved violently — the horse reared , its front hooves lashing wildly in thin air — someone screamed , the frightened horse whinnied and plunged and Mabel , struck down by flying hooves , lay motionless upon the roadway as one wheel of the van ran over her breast , and her life 's blood dribbled away into the gutter . |
| 26 | As the platoons march towards the assembly hall for a short church service and the Inspecting Officer 's address and presentation of awards , a minibus pulls away from the selection centre . |
| 27 | Once fierce rivals of York came unstuck again in their desperate bid to climb away from the bottom reaches of Yorkshire Division One , going down 15–10 Leodiensians . |
| 28 | A moment later the big brown car pulled away from the kerb . |
| 29 | Mr Cavendish adapted the hymn with great enthusiasm : My meat 's fresh and flavoursome , All creatures great and small , All things roast and barbecued , The Lord God made them all — and bang ! down came the cleaver and the blood trickled away down the special channel . |
| 30 | He heard Gleeson 's whinny , wild and excited , and willed the runt 's head between his hands , to be crushed , destroyed , all the brains and blood running away down the marble butchering block . |