Example sentences of "away [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last he had heard she had returned to Ponten VI — the planet which had been ceded to the Guild of Adjudicators in perpetuity by a wary but appreciative Earth Central — but that was too far away for anything but the so-called pigeon post ; recorded messages dumped into a hyperdrone and aimed at the recipient 's projected location . |
| 2 | He was in a dream , aware of the sharp , early air and the smell of damp earth , seeing the vast pearly spread of the estuary far away below him beyond the fading gold necklaces of the street-lights , and yet altogether apart from his everyday world . |
| 3 | As sometimes happens with pianists of exceptional technical ability there can often be a sense in their playing that they are trying hard not to run away with themselves in the easy passages . |
| 4 | Erm I will take those notes away with me in the strictest confidence , go through them erm work out some recommendations , how you could hit the goals that you will go for at the end of the day . |
| 5 | She stopped , aware that her tongue was running away with her in the heat of the moment . |
| 6 | And he picked up Gabriel with just one arm round his hips , and stumped stolidly away with him to the privacy of the inn . |
| 7 | He took it away with him for the weekend , to his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | ‘ YOU always get something to take away with you in the Children 's Address . ’ |
| 9 | Will he get away with it for the rest of his life ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If I can get drunk enough on this stuff I might be able to get away with it at the next repatriation board . ’ |
| 11 | Scotland seem to have got away with it at the moment . |
| 12 | But then there were the terns getting away with it on the other side of the window . ’ |
| 13 | That does n't mean to say that you 'd have let them necessarily get away with it on the spot but you you 're still going to do a persuasive tact but in the end if they say no fine . |
| 14 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |
| 15 | If you are n't as good as if you were in church , the train wo n't come , and we sha n't go away in it to the ends of the earth . |
| 16 | She lit another cigarette and pushed the remains of a croissant away from her across the table . |
| 17 | He snatched the shoe out of her hand and hurled it violently away from her into the Kingsland Road . |
| 18 | Aunt Emily looked away from her into the fire . |
| 19 | I 'm away from her at the moment ; perhaps you guessed . |
| 20 | Léonie edged away from her on the warm plastic seat . |
| 21 | He wrenched himself from her arms , leaving her suddenly chilled although the night was still very mild , and paced away from her on the veranda , then circled back to stare down at her once again , his face set in a grim , frowning mask . |
| 22 | He sat a foot away from her on the edge of the bed . |
| 23 | USER FRIENDLY came within an ace of a French fortune yesterday as the Arc was snatched away from her in the shadow of the winning post . |
| 24 | How did you manage to get away from her in the end and come and live in this funny little house ? ’ |
| 25 | From hour to hour one 's life slipped away from one into the haze , before one had really looked at any of it properly . |
| 26 | But notice that I 'm pouring slowly and gently away from me into the dish which I shall then put in here , and I 'm going to put the the plate , which I described to you before , which has been covered with what 's on the back ? |
| 27 | I had a brief view of flailing arms and flying pans followed by a prolonged metallic clatter , then the little man reappeared like a projectile , turned right and sped away from me up the street . |
| 28 | He is a yard away from me across the gate . |
| 29 | Admonished and instructed by turns , I occasionally had the tambourine snatched away from me by the Second Son , who would rap it sharply against the wheel . |
| 30 | Do you think you could keep away from me by the way ? |