Example sentences of "[vb past] away on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As Mr Crump meandered away on a line his wife had drawn for him and in which he half-believed , John-Augustus recalled vividly a discussion he had overheard in the stable-yard earlier that morning . |
2 | At the age of thirteen Billing stowed away on a ship bound for Delagoa Bay . |
3 | This was the most precious moment , as he came to the end of his thrilling song , and his gentle but vibrant voice faded away on a note of infinitely passionate promise … |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She clung to Jacob 's arm , saw him spirited away on a tide of compliments . |
6 | The accumulated bric-à-brac of status which graced many a Victorian family parlour , tucked away on a mahogany table behind the aspidistra , was so often important to.the owners precisely because they felt rather less than secure about their own ranking in an increasingly volatile and uncharted class structure . |