Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] away from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat moved away from the island and I waited until it was out at sea . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A moment later the big brown car pulled away from the kerb . |
| 4 | Giants went ahead at 69-67 through Johnson and as the momentum swung away from the Finns , overall victory suddenly seemed a possibility . |
| 5 | Work hours were long , 10–12 hours per day , 6½days a week , with a one week break taken away from the islands every four weeks . |
| 6 | My mind wandered away from the disembowelled calves . |
| 7 | The other side of the escarpment was a fractured plateau , a great , cracked slab of rock tilted away from the summit of the ridge . |
| 8 | Ice cracked away from the hatch at a pressure from inside . |
| 9 | His pen moved away from the cheque-book . |
| 10 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |
| 11 | A built-up surround will have to be dismantled piece by piece , but with the other types , you can chop away the plaster just next to the surround until you find the brackets , after which the screws can be undone ( or the brackets sawn through ) and the fireplace surround levered away from the wall with a crowbar . |
| 12 | The cage moved away from the dome and towards the hole . |
| 13 | He says the security people had their attention drawn away from the closed circuit television system when they should be watching . |
| 14 | Use an extension microphone aimed away from the unwanted noise . |
| 15 | The lorry pulled away from the kerbside with Tony the driver looking helplessly at his two friends . |
| 16 | During the parts of the course spent away from the University , students will work in a specified hospital laboratory or laboratories in the Region . |
| 17 | The commission moved away from the idea that Christians agree on what is important and disagree only on what is trivial . |
| 18 | She glanced at her watch as the train pulled away from the platform . |
| 19 | The Mallaig train pulled away from the Clyde valley , leaving the haze-softened lights of Dumbarton paling in a cold February dawn . |
| 20 | It was standing room only as the Ghost Train pulled away from the London Nautical School , expertly disguised as Fal Vale Station . |
| 21 | The hair came off like Herman 's wig , and the papery flesh flaked away from the exploded skull . |
| 22 | Signal morphology was analysed by the probability density function for the amount of time the signal spent away from the electrical baseline . |
| 23 | There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers . |
| 24 | But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs . |
| 25 | From the tip of the headland and for some way out to sea the waves were breaking white against half-submerged fangs and stacks of rock that had in time past broken away from the main cliffs . |
| 26 | The road wound away from the Martin farm into the outskirts of the village . |
| 27 | On the other hand , light from the edge tilted away from the Earth arrived 420 days after the explosion . |
| 28 | A path wound away from the house , leading through the ridges and furrows of fields long left to nature . |
| 29 | The doors swished shut behind me and the bus pulled away from the curb . |
| 30 | The day was warm and sunny with a fair northerly breeze as Viking pulled away from the island , now transformed and softened by the good weather . |