Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] away [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 2 | Now 30 per cent of its junior management are women , although that figure falls away to a paltry 1 per cent at the highest levels . |
| 3 | It is not , to be sure , hugely impressive to look at : a modest , single-storey , office- cum-workshop tucked away in a side street . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | His quill pen scratched away on a sheet of treated notepaper , creating a little masterpiece of querulous complaint about a mistress Byron was tired of . |
| 6 | ‘ Ram ’ features more work using semen , aggressively sexual words and a jackhammer humping away against a wall . |
| 7 | All the general SVQ tutors , and the SVQ co-ordinator went away for a three-day residential to develop the programme . |
| 8 | The screech died away to a strangulated hissing as though the victim had clamped his lower lip with his teeth , biting with all the force of a steel beast-trap . |
| 9 | The tide had ebbed , and vast stretches and humps of sand shimmered away into a yellow infinity . |
| 10 | The vast heath stretched away like a sea , beyond this one wide street . |
| 11 | leader of a constituency deputation sent away with a flea in its ear by Mr Gregsbury , MP . |
| 12 | She took another breath and yelled , ‘ Hi , there ! ’ at the top of her voice , banging on the door with both fists as she did so — And heard the sound die away into a profound and unresponsive silence . |
| 13 | Fairham swallowed hard as he saw another portion of the carcass cut away by a powerful blow . |
| 14 | The failure of the Royal Commission 's own research to support their advocacy of large-scale units of local government led to scepticism in the 1970s as opinion swung away from a belief in bigness as a correlate of efficiency and progress . |
| 15 | At the back , the blouse cut away in a big yawn down to the wide plastic-belted top of her mini-skirt . |
| 16 | He will at a very early stage have taken steps to preserve evidence , possibly by photographic and other means , of an ephemeral or fleeting nature such as ice ( if he is lucky the temperature on the ground since the crash could still be below freezing ) , or fuel leaking away from a damaged tank or fuel filter , or soot deposits indicative of fire in the air which could be washed away by rain or other disturbance . |
| 17 | The tractor driver walked away without a scratch . |
| 18 | The blueness goes away in a day or two . |
| 19 | BLUEBIRD : The thief got away with a nest-egg |
| 20 | TORY back-benchers last night shied away from a rebellion over the Budget imposition of value-added tax on domestic fuel . |
| 21 | TONY AGANA last night walked away from a chance to rejoin Sheffield United on loan — and end his Notts County nightmare . |
| 22 | A THIEF walked away with a haul worth hundreds of pounds when he staged a ram raid on a shop with a wheelbarrow . |
| 23 | You 're like a small drop of water wearing away at a stone . ’ |
| 24 | The ball soared away in a graceful arc . |
| 25 | The hostess broke away from a clique of friends and bustled towards him , arms outstretched . |
| 26 | We walked a bit nearer , careful like , and then the mist rolled away for a minute or two and there she was . |
| 27 | He kept the corpse shut away in a special chamber at Sheen Palace . ’ |
| 28 | The use of a problem-orientated approach assists a therapist to get away from a purely medical or diagnostic approach because problems of a personal , social , medical , and psychiatric nature should all be included . |
| 29 | ‘ Next year will be hard work -but perhaps the year after that I 'll get the chance to break away to a Greek isle and do a Shirley Valentine … ‘ |
| 30 | A little walled garden , with a few pollarded lime trees in it , and one or two urns and busts , and a solitary policeman tucked away in a little sentry-box inside the gateway . |