Example sentences of "[vb pp] away like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stage is tucked away like a box in the wall . |
| 2 | The lashings holding the Zodiac snapped , and the inflatable spun away like a Frisbee . |
| 3 | To be deprived of freedom and of choice was the final fear , and Eleanor Thorne had been carted away like a splitting and discarded mattress beside someone 's dustbin . |
| 4 | Thrown away like a candy wrapper , thrown away like trash . |
| 5 | Hopelessness and reluctance are blown away like a fog and the dumb solitude where they crept , a place desolate as a crack in the ground , opens like a rose and stretches to the hills and the sky . |