Example sentences of "away [prep] the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject to invasions and to the steady and relentless pressure to Germanise or Polonise themselves they had watched their language and culture dwindle away as the other Pomeranian cultures had done before them . |
| 2 | Turning back , he quickly scanned the sheet again , looked up at the clock , and reached forward to slide a knob towards himself , at the same time sliding another away with the other hand — presumably fading out the music . |
| 3 | Standing by her place with an endearing air of domestic pride , she explained that her husband was away with the other men , spreading the meat strips on the higher thorn bushes to dry in safety . |
| 4 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 5 | You must be joking ! she told herself grimly , recalled to the present by the sound of the fax machine , once again clattering away in the other room . |
| 6 | In fact , it did much to disguise Sadat 's unpopularity at home and his break away from the other countries of the Middle East . |
| 7 | If either leg wants to fall out , then move the foot of that leg away from the other foot . |
| 8 | The differences between the painters appear to have been purely personal , but Delaunay had also moved away from the other Cubists in his works of 1912 , and , using his Cubist researches as a point of departure , was developing a much more purely abstract kind of painting with colour as its principal element . |
| 9 | Greeting us sleepily , they began immediately to cast off The engine started and a moment later we were pulling away from the other barges in a wash of white water . |
| 10 | Lean away from the other person with hands clenched , arms crossed and legs crossed . |
| 11 | He turned away from the other man and grinned crookedly in greeting . |
| 12 | Therefore , provided it is planted in the tank some distance away from the other plants , it should grow well . |
| 13 | The next day Stig , kept away from the other dogs on a separate chain , but not under cover , is stiff-legged and looking mournful . |
| 14 | It stood well away from the other buildings and this morning the great doors were partly open and she looked inside carefully . |
| 15 | er , if they 're , er far , not too far away from the other car |
| 16 | Fenner Brockway 's conception of the " Workers Front " , limited to " working class parties " , was adopted at the ILP Conference at Easter 1937 , and the ILP began to draw away from the other participants in the Unity Campaign . |
| 17 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 18 | ‘ One of our sons was with us for eight months before going away to the other end of the earth — I could n't even phone him . |
| 19 | He managed to get away to the other side of the ring but Grant , who calls himself The Terminator , slashed away with both hands , forcing the stoppage . |
| 20 | You will wake the dog , ’ Theda chided in a low tone , moving away to the other side of the room by the desk where they had ministered to Hector 's hurt . |
| 21 | John protests : ‘ I do n't think I 'm a misery but I do tell the kids to go and watch Neighbours and Home and Away on the other TV . |
| 22 | Better to surrender quietly to that hell of pain , to slide into it , to crumble and fold like burning straw , to merge and coalesce and become one with it , until , phoenix-like , she floated away on the other side , whole and free . |
| 23 | We 'll keep well away on the other side so as not — ahem — to hinder your movement when the moment comes . ’ |
| 24 | It was n't until I heard Dennis say , ‘ I 'll just fetch up another bottle of the Hunter Valley ’ that it was borne in on me that the woman who was frenching me and bringing herself off on my belt buckle was none other than Karen Parsons , the wife of Dennis Parsons , who was currently six feet away on the other side of the dining-room door and closing rapidly . |
| 25 | The entrance to Ramillies Drive was about thirty yards away on the other side of the road . |
| 26 | Repatriation was not the concern of the embassy , they must go to the British Consulate , a little distance away on the other side of the Brandenburg Gate . |
| 27 | Occasionally , she glanced across to check on the progress of the chemicals bubbling away on the other side of the room . |
| 28 | He was there , standing in the dark ink-green shadow under a dense carob tree seventy or eighty yards away on the other side of the gulley , at the same level as myself . |
| 29 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 30 | Though closing the door shut her off from the rest of the boat , she was still acutely aware of him only inches away on the other side of the deckhead . |