Example sentences of "the [noun] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chimney led from the side of the boiler away to the end of the shed . |
| 2 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 3 | With the velocity , as long as it stays up there , it 's travelling in the direction away from the starting line . |
| 4 | Value for money ( VFM ) audits have developed in recent years as a way of expanding the more traditional role of the auditor away from the more straightforward examination of the fairness of the financial statements of an organization . |
| 5 | Most problems arise when inclining the rig to the front to turn the board away from the wind ; if you commit too much weight forwards there is a risk of being pulled over . |
| 6 | Ruth put the shell away in the safest pocket of her waterproof , and gave him one of the chocolate bars . |
| 7 | As Divisional Construction Manager , Jim Gillespie says : ‘ The contractors are not taking the estates away from the tenants , but working with them , to improve their environment . ’ |
| 8 | The Straw Race is a lot of hard work and a lot of fun , but Martin Jay , chairman of the race , thinks the best part is ‘ giving the money away at the end , when all the hard work finally feels worthwhile ’ . |
| 9 | That 's all right , ’ he brushed the money away with the back of his hand , his heart sinking . |
| 10 | Others even took the view that the Party was deliberately exploiting the situation , with the Führer away at the Front leading the struggle against Bolshevism , to destroy the basis of Christianity at home ‘ behind his back ’ . |
| 11 | Even when that object was not consciously in view most proposals for Masai development tended in practice towards that end , their essential ingredient being some measure designed to move the Masai away from the semi-nomadism they had immemorially practised towards a way of living which would make it easier for administrators to keep a benevolent eye on them . |
| 12 | Dreaming the hours away on the lovely sands , one can imagine anything about Sandwood Bay . |
| 13 | I also recall that some cricket grounds displayed notices curtly stressing : ‘ No Autographs ’ and over-zealous groundstaff and sometimes local police had a high old time trying to keep the hunters away from the hunted . |
| 14 | After removing the knitting from the machine pull the ‘ gathering ’ thread at the side of the knitting away from the end , so that the cast-on edge of the knitting is gathered into a smooth flat edge . |
| 15 | The breakage of the teeth has produced two distinct types of damage : the splitting described earlier has progressed to cut whole sections of the teeth away from the rest ( Fig. 1.5C , D ) , so that the crowns of the teeth are split longitudinally , and this produces split molars ( Fig. 1.5C ) as defined in Table 3.10 . |
| 16 | I always fear for the fingers of the Portuguese works who feed these strips through the punching machines that make the corks , deftly guiding faults in the strip away from the cutter . |
| 17 | This process of depreciation is almost like the ebbing away of the poet himself . |
| 18 | Cut the skin away from the fish , then cut the fillets into even-sized chunks . |
| 19 | Laertes , who spends most of the play away from the court studying in France , is also a character who appears to have a sub-plot of his own . |
| 20 | Straight up means that the source is in line with the sun , and any other direction indicates the angle of the course away from the sun . |
| 21 | Blake directed the stranger away from the Thames towards the hustle and bustle of the East End . |
| 22 | Trim the fabric away inside the scallops , cutting close to the stitching line and notching out the seam allowance round the curves ( fig. 37 ) . |
| 23 | Climbs can weep for a while after heavy rain , but the rock away from the natural drainage lines dries quickly . |
| 24 | He holds his hands passively forwards , and places his head on the carer 's shoulder , on the side away from the chair . |
| 25 | If the standard is single budded , the bud should be on the side away from the stake , and therefore ‘ facing to London ’ . |
| 26 | The obvious answer is to draw it back to the side away from the corner , but this can create an unbalanced appearance . |
| 27 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |
| 28 | The seif dune differs from the barchan , therefore , in that the slip faces are on the side away from the strong wind and not facing the direction of advance as in the barchan . |
| 29 | Robyn swore and flung herself at the stove , trying to scrape what was left of the bacon away from the bottom of the pan . |
| 30 | Too much competition between the two main houses has resulted in the whittling away of the seller 's commission in many transactions and buyers will now be hit in order to restore profit margins . |