Example sentences of "[vb past] away [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fled away into the brightness where we could not follow . ’ |
| 2 | Entwined snakes of gold and scarlet streamed through each other as the sail , rolling and writhing , fled away on the wind . |
| 3 | He frowned as the waiter hesitated , then gasped with shock as the man , his nerve gone , fled away from the room . |
| 4 | Several times deer crashed away through the undergrowth on their approach , leaping up and down over obstacles . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Colin and Wendy Parry , of Great Sankey , Warrington , saw hopes for their son Tim snatched away with the news that his condition has deteriorated in the intensive care unit of Liverpool 's Walton neurosurgical centre . |
| 6 | ‘ At one time , maybe 67 years ago , ’ began Woods , his guide-like voice snatched away in the wind , ‘ Hell Bunker was allowed to ramble . |
| 7 | As they drew away into the darkness , Joshua Cohen stood and looked after them . |
| 8 | The wash of waves on the pebbled beach , the crying and calling of the wheeling gulls , the silver chain of sound from a lark above the cliff-top , and , as a final coda , the distant , breathy note of the ferry 's siren as she drew away towards the west . |
| 9 | She drew away to the balcony over the lobby , feeling incapable , looking down at the bawling men in dinner jackets far below and the women with stiff hair . |
| 10 | Ralph listened and drew away from the escalator . |
| 11 | At the sound of her mother 's voice , faint but even at this distance still accusing , away down there on the snow-covered lawn , Alexandra drew away from the window into the shadows of the room behind . |
| 12 | The Hercules banked , drew away from the pool of light , then back into the merciful , all concealing blackness . |
| 13 | The driver closed the door behind him and moments later the car drew away from the road-block , heading south . |
| 14 | It left a tidemark of greasy bits as it sank away down the plughole . |
| 15 | Again the revolver exploded , again Callaghan staggered away from the spurt of dirt . |
| 16 | Rohmer staggered away from the wall , eyes blazing with fury , hand massaging his wrist . |
| 17 | Marcus jerked away from the contact and lashed out , pushing Pete onto his backside . |
| 18 | Nails screeched and popped , and the board juddered away at the bottom as something outside slammed against the wood . |
| 19 | Reluctantly they headed away into the darkness and made the rendezvous rather late , but luckily the patrol had waited for them . |
| 20 | Artemis followed suit and they headed away from the house up a long pull which led to a covert known as the King 's Bushes . |
| 21 | Sheets in , he bore away from the motor yacht . |
| 22 | At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland . |
| 23 | Without stopping , the double-decker tramcar , its lights blazing , whined away into the distance . |
| 24 | The hearing was told Bill Vincent dived in and swam away from the yacht . |
| 25 | The hearing was told Bill Vincent dived in and swam away from the yacht . |
| 26 | We squeal-turned around the crowd , and zigzagged away from the Temple of Turhan Bey . |
| 27 | All through the morning , as they sat on the makeshift bunks , they stared without comment at the kneeling figure who ground away at the rust around the bolt . |
| 28 | Then it moved away into the wood . |
| 29 | The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top . |
| 30 | He moved away into the night and Hari watched until he had disappeared from sight , then she closed the door . |