Example sentences of "[vb past] away [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 2 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 3 | She broke off as if afraid of being overheard and moved away with a nod and a wave . |
| 4 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
| 5 | As in France under the Fifth Republic , West Germany moved away from a system of political parties based on class , religious and constitutional differences . |
| 6 | Mrs Healy moved away like a ship under full sail . |
| 7 | He nodded , then turned and rode away at a canter . |
| 8 | Looking round for Blackberry , he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool , where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit . |
| 9 | TORY back-benchers last night shied away from a rebellion over the Budget imposition of value-added tax on domestic fuel . |
| 10 | Then he loped away as a hound came running silently through the trees , nose to the ground , scenting slowly . |
| 11 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 12 | BLUEBIRD : The thief got away with a nest-egg |
| 13 | Raiders got away with a quantity of drugs , including adrenaline hydrochloride , hydrocortisone and cocaine between 1pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday . |
| 14 | Those who got away with a Heimatschuss ( a ’ blighty wound ‘ ) say they were lucky . ’ |
| 15 | SOCCER player Paul Pullen got away with a foul … his identical twin was sent off instead . |
| 16 | Fellow countryman Luis Mendoza got away with a draw — but in the return Palacio was halted in the third round . |
| 17 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At the age of thirteen Billing stowed away on a ship bound for Delagoa Bay . |
| 20 | It seems , Freddie as he 's been named , stowed away with a consignment of bananas from the Windward Islands . |
| 21 | Service changed hands eight times and there were four lets in between until Soutter broke the deadlock with a tight drop that created an opening and a lovely cross-court forehand slice that zipped away for a winner . |
| 22 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |
| 23 | We soon roared away in a cloud of dust , shoulder to ribcage with the largest man I have ever seen in my life . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure I would , ’ he said , and she felt almost overcome by a tide of relief because it was all right , at last he understood … and then he took his two hands away from hers on the table , and his smile and his entire attitude dropped away like a paper mask . |
| 25 | The boy gave an amused flick of his head , swung round unhurriedly — yet not too slowly , either — and sauntered away with a laugh , his admirers tittering after him . |
| 26 | The recruitment poster , designed by Riley Advertising , also came away with a certificate in the full colour press ad category . |
| 27 | Gingerly she felt her mouth with her fingertips ; they came away with a splattering of blood where she had bitten her own lip . |
| 28 | There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player . |
| 29 | They looked a class act and for once came away with a result to match . |
| 30 | They looked a class act and for once came away with a result to match . |