Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 2 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
| 3 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 4 | The recession , which we expected to fade away through the year , has hit us full on , and as I write there is little sign of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel . |
| 5 | These had probably been caused as Trixie tried to pull away from the heater . |
| 6 | She in turn tried to get away from the bird , but was so firmly strapped into the chair that she was unable to move . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 8 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 9 | ‘ So far comments from Com Tech and MUA suggest that SCO will still be sold by both companies , but neither tried to shy away from the fact that their decisions will hurt SCO . |
| 10 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 11 | They 'd moved away from the office district and she was now in an area of sandwich shops , electrical stores and ticket agencies where the traffic was heavier and the pavement crowds more dense . |
| 12 | According to our panel all three parties , including Labour , seemed to drift away from the issue as the campaign progressed . |
| 13 | Rebel was racing after another lamb he 'd steered away from the main flock . |
| 14 | His hat tipped off and began to bowl away in the wind . |
| 15 | Her words were barely audible , so light that they threatened to float away on the breeze . |
| 16 | ‘ You must , ’ he said and began walking away down the street . |
| 17 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 18 | He began to walk away from the burial ground , his heart surging with excitement . |
| 19 | The passengers , replete with the lamb and chocolate mousse , lingered over coffee , and began to drift away to the dome car 's bar lounge . |
| 20 | The ship had slowed its speed as passengers gradually began to drift away from the reception to enjoy their evening meal in one of the several top class restaurants . |
| 21 | He began moving away from the ball when he began hitting those dreaded laterals with short irons . |
| 22 | Fenner Brockway 's conception of the " Workers Front " , limited to " working class parties " , was adopted at the ILP Conference at Easter 1937 , and the ILP began to draw away from the other participants in the Unity Campaign . |
| 23 | Imperceptibly at first , the floor of the cabin began to tilt away from the horizontal . |
| 24 | She began to run away from the van , round the side of the building in the direction of Charley 's place . |
| 25 | The tall boy turned away and began to pace away down the hill . |
| 26 | As the Citron began to climb away from the crowded rice paddies into the red-soiled rubber plantation region , Joseph studied the face of the driver in the rearview mirror , trying to guess his feelings . |
| 27 | Barely a week into the tour , Johnny Marr was feeling the strain : ‘ I feel like I 'm in The Rolling Stones or any other rock band , ’ he said as the gruelling schedule began to etch away at the excitement generated by that first night . |
| 28 | The group fell apart in the spring of 1990 when the Balts began to stay away from the ‘ foreign ’ Soviet parliament , while Russia 's democrats squabbled among themselves . |
| 29 | The acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic , the bottom strands of her curly hair . |
| 30 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |