Example sentences of "[vb past] away [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parts of the rudder which sank away from the main hull corroded as could be expected , so the answer must lie with the hull itself . |
| 2 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 3 | Once I had said my thanks and farewells to William and to the immense policeman who had silently accompanied us throughout the afternoon , I headed away down the rutted tracks , rather glad to be back on the road and off back to Panama City . |
| 4 | It headed away from the distant airport building , a single-storey edifice , away from the main road to Rovaniemi , heading east cross-country into the wilderness . |
| 5 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 6 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
| 7 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 8 | This ambitious piece of engineering , extending for 12 miles between Peterborough and Wisbech , survives today , although the tower Morton built from which to watch over his work-force crumbled away in the early nineteenth century . |
| 9 | So these people moved away into the Pennine valleys . |
| 10 | As he moved away past the fifteen hundredweight and on down the line , his receding words of assurance were interrupted by warning shouts . |
| 11 | As the car moved away from the Elizabethan pile Marler glanced in his wing mirror . |
| 12 | After that , his senses remained strained and alert for several hundred paces , but there was no more hint of a shadow , and as he moved away from the busier streets he became increasingly confident that he was alone . |
| 13 | He moved away from the strange man , anxious to leave quickly . |
| 14 | It was some kind of air duct , the hot , dry wind pushing into their faces as they moved away from the murderous thundering noise . |
| 15 | They then moved away from the main circuit , onto a piece of rough ground for the ‘ Formula Finesse Auto Test ’ . |
| 16 | ANDREW put down his binoculars and moved away from the grey lace that hung from the curve of the curtain-wire in front of his window . |
| 17 | And the anointed heir of the British utilitarian tradition , James Mill 's son , John Stuart , soon moved away from the robust democratic faith of his early mentors . |
| 18 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 19 | Of course I simply wandered away in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | In 1921 , for example , we find the police warning against setting up a ‘ continental system of domestic espionage ’ in Britain ( p. 6 ) Even SIS , which had designs on MI5 in 1945 , shied away from the latter 's counter-subversive functions , so as not to be ‘ associated with the idea of an internal Gestapo , ( p. 177 ) No wonder governments are nervous of too much openness in this area . |
| 21 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 22 | As the director of the new Network SouthEast , he never shied away from the divisive problems of pre-Grouping company loyalty and post-war neglect , and as a media lover soon became a star . |
| 23 | Allan got away to the best start and led for the opening thirty metres ( the commentators were going berserk ! ) . |
| 24 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 25 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 26 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 27 | We taxied away from the palm-thatched hut that was proudly styled as Straker 's Cay Airport Terminal Number One . |
| 28 | Perhaps the final irony was that Dubcek , himself a thorn in the side of Soviet authoritarianism , passed away on the 75th anniversary of Russia 's October Revolution . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 30 | She stalked away from the front door and it closed softly behind him . |