Example sentences of "away like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 2 | Marjorie has a habit of buying Christmas presents early , hiding them away like a squirrel , and then forgetting all about them . |
| 3 | Your heart 's ticking away like a clock . |
| 4 | It took her breath away like a blow . |
| 5 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 6 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 7 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 8 | One little rascal had picked up a cigarette-end , still burning ( called a dog-end , or dout ) and was puffing away like a steam engine . |
| 9 | Our friend from the smoke , vigorously lashing away like a cab driver whipping a lazy horse , caught three . |
| 10 | ‘ Telekinesis ’ roars away like a kamikaze jet nearing target . |
| 11 | It probably was n't bubbling and smoking away like a witch 's cauldron but I certainly remember it that way What was it ? |
| 12 | The vast heath stretched away like a sea , beyond this one wide street . |
| 13 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 14 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the future of her career was a constant background worry as the days and weeks of her appointment at Rummidge ticked away like a taxi meter . |
| 16 | Instead of stealing away like a thief in the night ! |
| 17 | Hopelessness and reluctance are blown away like a fog and the dumb solitude where they crept , a place desolate as a crack in the ground , opens like a rose and stretches to the hills and the sky . |
| 18 | He comes on a bit slow , sometimes , and the old turbine up top does n't always chug away like a Lamborghini , but he gets there , he gets there . |
| 19 | If she eased up on this will for just a moment , love would fly away like a bird released from its cage . |
| 20 | It was all very peaceful : Mister Johnny 's voice bubbling away like a lark and the sun on the hay field and on the tall-chimneyed house and on the quiet mountain behind it . |
| 21 | The lashings holding the Zodiac snapped , and the inflatable spun away like a Frisbee . |
| 22 | Thrown away like a candy wrapper , thrown away like trash . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure I would , ’ he said , and she felt almost overcome by a tide of relief because it was all right , at last he understood … and then he took his two hands away from hers on the table , and his smile and his entire attitude dropped away like a paper mask . |
| 24 | He found his hands full of dry , papery skin which , as he worked his way closer to her windpipe , came up and away like a curtain of strudel dough . |
| 25 | The wind takes him away like a curtain snatch on a bad act . |
| 26 | Though his body was sweeling away like a torrent on a cliff |
| 27 | Mrs Healy moved away like a ship under full sail . |
| 28 | To be deprived of freedom and of choice was the final fear , and Eleanor Thorne had been carted away like a splitting and discarded mattress beside someone 's dustbin . |
| 29 | ‘ My brother ’ , Edward said later , ‘ pushed me away like a dog . |
| 30 | Gloomy prognostications of Aethelbald 's life being in danger of passing away like a shadow and his soul into eternal perdition — although conventionally expressed — imply an unhappy conclusion to his life as a real possibility . |