Example sentences of "[vb infin] away [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them .
2 But its overall role as a credible world community of faith and love , a body that can be ignored by no one , a living tradition that combines humanity and the most sophisticated rational understanding with divinity and mystical insight , will simply dwindle away in the twenty-first century , leaving the Church as a narrowing fellowship upon the margins of history .
3 Remarkably , Cambridge let the initiative dribble away in the third quarter despite spending most of that period camped in the Oxford half .
4 Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble .
5 I wanted to just pop away over the first few for him to get his confidence .
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