Example sentences of "[vb past] away like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Healy moved away like a ship under full sail . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I flew over Paddy 's shoulders , bounced off the bonnet and rushed away like a madman . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the future of her career was a constant background worry as the days and weeks of her appointment at Rummidge ticked away like a taxi meter . |
| 5 | The vast heath stretched away like a sea , beyond this one wide street . |
| 6 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |