Example sentences of "away across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHILE the people of Hong Kong , stripped of any useful British nationality by successive immigration laws , fear for their future after the massacre at Peking in June , many Macao citizens , just 40 miles away across the Pearl River delta , rest secure in the knowledge that Portugal will offer them a guaranteed home of last resort after it returns their territory to China in 1999 . |
| 2 | Some acid house parties can be heard miles away across the countryside : the inhabitants of normally quiet villages deserve protection . |
| 3 | I got into the seat next to him and he quickly drove off , heading out of the village and down the road towards the Orne bridges , leaving a cloud of dust following close behind , no doubt attracting the attention of the German gunners and mortars a short distance away across the fields . |
| 4 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 5 | My mother is holding my hand to stop me getting away across the foyer . |
| 6 | On Hestfjördur a diver — — probably Great Northern — sculls away across the water as I approach . |
| 7 | She walked away across the polished floor , then halted and turned . |
| 8 | It was a fresh , blustery day ; very clear : she could see the lighthouse on the Yorkshire coast , two miles away across the Estuary and all the sun-washed white buildings huddled below it . |
| 9 | ‘ Mrs Shottery has explained , ’ she said , looking away across the room , ‘ I can tell you no more . ’ |
| 10 | Far away across the varied greens and browns the wood-jagged horizon gave way to the faint blue hump of the Malvern Hills . |
| 11 | It would have been a sensible place in which to have encountered a loving creator , but it was a wretched spot for a pale and spindly child to fall victim to the predatory hunger of an Italian prisoner of war with a tobacco tin filled with metal rings made in the camp workshop three miles away across the woods . |
| 12 | The beach is all of fifty metres away across the road and is great for lazy days sunbathing . |
| 13 | The terrific open air restaurant and bar situated on the beach front serve a full range of local and international dishes , and the most popular disco in Gumbet is only a 300 metre stroll away across the beach . |
| 14 | The Green Study though was a perfect place for writing ; again panelled , the panelling painted a celadon green , one of its windows looked over the garden and caught all the sun , the other over a side courtyard and away across the huddled roofs of Mermaid Street to Winchelsea , another ancient town . |
| 15 | Well , I do n't have anything on me , so she grabs my sunglasses and races away across the field . |
| 16 | As the raiders then slipped away across the airfield , an undamaged aircraft loomed out of the darkness . |
| 17 | Then the men took to lying under the mango tree , away across the fields at the crossroads of several paths . |
| 18 | Away across the fields was the train , steam drifting out from the engine , people spilling out from inside and on top . |
| 19 | He tottered away across the bath to Jazz and Bean , leaving Hoomey clinging to the rail , gazing down in amazement at the distance he had swum . |
| 20 | The bulk of the English fleet was away across the Atlantic and a mere 39 ships under Sir Charles Hardy were patrolling off the Scillies to guard the Western Approaches . |
| 21 | Each night as he lay in bed he would imagine himself catching the train from the local station — such reveries usually assumed the initial achievement of getting outside the camp — or stalking the frontier guards among the mountains with Switzerland a few hundred yards away across the snow … |
| 22 | Far away across the room , her mother was deep in conversation with a handsome young advocate ; they were discussing the merits of a written constitution . |
| 23 | Far away across the Atlantic , the Cormack family was burying their son . |
| 24 | France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I ran away across the track because I wanted to avoid getting into any problems . |
| 26 | Away across the canal , brave little Anabelle sat down on the footpath under the great beast 's nose . |
| 27 | ‘ Move ! ’ she whispered , and to her intense surprise , almost at once , the cigar with its little red and gold paper band around its middle rolled away across the top of the dressing-table and fell on to the carpet . |
| 28 | Get onto the moorland by a stile on the far side and aim towards the right hand edge of the forest about 100 yards away across the valley . |
| 29 | I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 30 | He walked away across the uneven ground and , as Hari watched him , she felt her anger subside leaving only the dull ache of disappointment . |