Example sentences of "away [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any meaningful stretch of language , of any extent , like the or in case I 've thrown it away or the s in a plural like chairs . |
| 2 | There are no bureaucrats going round counting the jobs that never happened , the jobs that went away or the small firms that have packed up because they could no longer make a profit under the new controls and restrictions on their work force . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning . |
| 4 | He was about to call Marian to his side when a movement a few hundred yards away where the forest and the Waste met caught his eye . |
| 5 | We are supposed to get out and obtain , somehow , transport to another village 50 river km away where the Tisza becomes Hungarian again . |
| 6 | Remember as you head up and bear away that the sail will need to be sheeted in and out accordingly , otherwise the board will stop . |
| 7 | I have to say straight away that the three star grading is highly personal decision that goes against the grain of usual standards . |
| 8 | You will have spotted straight away that the Caribbean is not exactly renowned for the quality of its knitwear . |
| 9 | It can be seen straight away that the Faculty has an enormous task merely trying to help members keep up-to-date with all these changes , to help them interpret some of the more obscure elements and , wherever possible , to pool their combined knowledge to match the tax authorities ' ability to pool their knowledge of the activities of taxpayers and their advisers . |
| 10 | We realised straight away that the Landrover was a good choice of vehicle because even the main roads were pretty rough , and we intended spending most of our time in the north of the island where road and track conditions promised to be even worse . |
| 11 | The tone was sub-Garbo ; only the tikka mark between the eyebrows gave away that the image was Indian . |
| 12 | We examine hypertext briefly below ( see 3.25 ) but it is worth noting right away that the hypertext model appears to be extremely effective in structuring multimedia applications . |
| 13 | But disabled shoppers protested just yards away that the scheme barred them from using some shops . |
| 14 | One raggedly clad individual shouted an incomprehensible greeting , cackling shrilly when Ellen quickly pulled Isabel away so the cart could proceed over the bridge . |
| 15 | Reflecting on Down 's immediate future he adds : ‘ You have to remember that the championship is only eight or nine weeks away so the more competitive football we get the better . |
| 16 | Prentice kicked the iron block away so the fire door slammed behind us . |
| 17 | It is above the eighth magnitude , and is visible with × 7 , though only as a dim blur ; its real distance is 69000 light-years , so that it is much further away than the brighter globular clusters such as M13 Herculis and Omega Centauri . |
| 18 | Triangulum is graced by the presence of the spiral galaxy M33 , a member of the Local Group , at a distance of 2300000 light-years — only slightly further away than the Andromeda Spiral . |
| 19 | The camera had to get both this and the foreground action ( which in fact was further away than the glass and shot through it ) into focus while creating a convincing effect — too sharp a focus on the glass painting might be counter-productive , revealing its flatness and unchanging lighting . |
| 20 | just to exist , was a very hard one , but they were home and many of those who lived in these remote parts had probably never been further away than the nearest celebration of Holy Communion . |
| 21 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 22 | There is a clear sense of recession , with paler tones dominating at the top of the canvas and appearing further away than the more densely coloured foreground . |
| 23 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 24 | And , while I was not in possession of definite proof , my money was on it coming from somewhere a little further away than the Fulham Palace Road . |
| 25 | Furthermore , that choice is imminent and possibly no further away than the next budget . |
| 26 | Yet all these irritations fade away once the museum lays claim to the minds and emotions of its visitors . |
| 27 | Much of the activity was puerile and faded away once the initial pride in seeing the list of names and the hopes of government favour had vanished . |
| 28 | Twickenham is a long way away and the message from the North is that the Rugby Football Union needs to plough more resources into its missionary work in the area . |
| 29 | Phoebe jerked away and the radiologist only just managed to suppress her irritation . |
| 30 | During the practice , Prost had been impressed by both the McLaren and the Williams and his worst fears were confirmed as Senna pulled inexorably away and the multi-coloured Williams of Nigel Mansell began to move about in Prost 's mirrors . |