Example sentences of "away [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CULT figures on Australian radio , ‘ Roy and HG ’ natter away about the cricketers of recent years , superbly dry and yet ‘ over the top ’ , some of their remarks surely bordering on the actionable . |
| 2 | I waited a minute or so then got up , leaving my almost clean plate , and went through the house to the lounge , where I could see the path leading away through the dunes towards the bridge . |
| 3 | This autumn the ground is so dry that most of the earth falls away through the gaps in the conveyor-belts , but the digger can not distinguish between potatoes , stones and potato-sized clods of mud , and the whole lot are delivered aloft , along two belts made of metal rods . |
| 4 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 5 | However , the diplomacy which really mattered had always been that of sovereign states ; this final withering away of the claims of other entities to conduct some sort of foreign relations of their own was merely a kind of necessary tidying-up , the clearing of an undergrowth of quasi-diplomacy . |
| 6 | If the continuing ritual represents a progressive pruning away of the trappings of mythology , then it would follow that no one has clipped the lion 's wings or fleaed his rump or pared his claws since all these things , like classical-cum-Shakespearian mythology , are the ritual entrappings of the culture from which our own is descended , preserved among us as ‘ survivals ’ . |
| 7 | Indeed , retaking may be his only opportunity of doing himself justice , for delay may mean destruction or conveying away of the goods by B , who may be quite incapable of paying their value . |
| 8 | Gradually the sun fell away behind the trees on Three Island Pond whose shadows slowly lengthened towards the Cages . |
| 9 | When he returned to his room Coleridge was mortified to discover that ‘ though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision , yet , with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images , all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast … ’ |
| 10 | The new law also does away with the concepts of custody and access . |
| 11 | She closed her eyes , tried to clear her mind , tried to let the world fall away with the rhythms of the journey . |
| 12 | Then he picked up his monkey and the cat and strode away with the bells on his knees jangling . |
| 13 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 14 | The Guildsmen were wading through the audience , overturning benches and chasing children away with the backs of their hands . |
| 15 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 16 | And ‘ now ’ was slipping away with the hands of the clock . |
| 17 | Jimmy skipped away up the stairs towards the plinth , just as the girl began to sit up , with Duvall and Rohmer keeping as far away from her as possible . |
| 18 | The Mercedes began to purr softly and then swept powerfully away into the streets of Amsterdam . |
| 19 | Long before an enemy could get near enough to distinguish any glint of arms , the whole company could fold their belongings and slip away into the mountains at their back . |
| 20 | ‘ I imagined kidnapping you , driving away into the mountains to some remote spot and forcing you to say you 'd forgive and forget . |
| 21 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 22 | Every one had slipped away into the mists during the past two or three years until only she , Dorothea , was left . |
| 23 | It was one of those old-established inns tucked away into the side-streets of London that have somehow avoided being bought over and sanitized by the big chains , an ivy-covered twenty-room place with panelling and bay-windows and a fire blazing in the brick hearth of a reception area furnished in rugs over uneven boards . |
| 24 | But as she straightened , armed , the nervous snake abandoned its prey and slithered away into the shadows under a fig tree . |
| 25 | He handed down the cane and the bicycle lamp and she waded away into the shadows as the curious faces of the villagers , the anxious face of her father , peered down at her . |
| 26 | They 're much better off dancing the night away under the stars with a friend or two . |
| 27 | As the sheriff officers supervised the house clearance , construction officials measured the family pigeon lofts and dog runs for removal and the ferrets were packed away under the eyes of an animal welfare officer . |
| 28 | 11 June All the posters are washed away under the orders of university authorities . |
| 29 | A first attack of herpes in the adult , sexually active woman can often go undiagnosed because the primary lesions may be hidden away in the folds of the labia and close examination is needed to identify the ulceration . |
| 30 | Authors in both traditions happily wrote away in the footsteps of the great Sherlock for a good many years after his second , slightly less flamboyant departure from the scene . |