Example sentences of "[vb past] away on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entwined snakes of gold and scarlet streamed through each other as the sail , rolling and writhing , fled away on the wind . |
| 2 | An electric fan heater thrummed away on the floor next to the table while the two bars of the electric fire in the hearth burned like red-hot pokers . |
| 3 | The last chime quivered away on the night air , and from somewhere behind the bar emerged the local hero , Miguelito the mystery man . |
| 4 | It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold . |
| 5 | The primary bevels were ground back and feathered away on the grindstone , taking care not to overheat and destroy the temper . |
| 6 | As Magee tugged it free a large lump of bone came away on the end of the knife . |
| 7 | When Gloria came , pattering across the ward in all her best , Dot could n't bear to see her pretty face and turned away on the pillow with shut eyes . |
| 8 | The clock ticked away on the mantelpiece . |
| 9 | Constance was not ready for it and rolled away on the grass . |
| 10 | And then there was nothing but the ruin of the forests and a cloud of dust on the horizon , which drifted away on the breeze . |
| 11 | A country ideal tucked away on the edge of a Cotswold village . |
| 12 | It stood at an angle behind the Alexandra Hotel near the bottom of Great Horton Road , tucked away on the curve of Randall Well Street . |
| 13 | The girls did n't flounce on , as the song throbbed away on the night , and the handsome young Miguelito stood upright , wandering into the crowd with a casual roll of the hips , as he strummed his guitar , coaxing yet more sensuous chords from it . |
| 14 | All members stayed away on the strike day . |