Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These had probably been caused as Trixie tried to pull away from the heater . |
| 3 | She in turn tried to get away from the bird , but was so firmly strapped into the chair that she was unable to move . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | According to our panel all three parties , including Labour , seemed to drift away from the issue as the campaign progressed . |
| 8 | His hat tipped off and began to bowl away in the wind . |
| 9 | Her words were barely audible , so light that they threatened to float away on the breeze . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | He began to walk away from the burial ground , his heart surging with excitement . |
| 12 | The passengers , replete with the lamb and chocolate mousse , lingered over coffee , and began to drift away to the dome car 's bar lounge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Imperceptibly at first , the floor of the cabin began to tilt away from the horizontal . |
| 16 | She began to run away from the van , round the side of the building in the direction of Charley 's place . |
| 17 | The tall boy turned away and began to pace away down the hill . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic , the bottom strands of her curly hair . |
| 22 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |
| 23 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 24 | ‘ Did I tell you I 'ad to run away in the end because he got to fancy me too much ? |
| 25 | He had a small drink from a bowl and started to wander away from the camp . |
| 26 | His only serious challenger was E.S.B. , but Devon Loch was a length to the good at the last fence and started to pull away up the run-in , over a quarter of a mile long . |
| 27 | Picking up his hounds , Lord Deverill turned his horse and started to walk away from the covert , followed by Artemis . |
| 28 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 29 | CP property was nationalized on Aug. 24 and on Aug. 28 , the republican party decided to break away from the CPSU . |
| 30 | She shut the door , and the car started to move away along the quiet road . |