Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] away [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | She pushed the sketches of Kenilworth away from her with an abrupt movement . |
2 | The seats inside face away from the path and I thought it would be safer like that . |
3 | Some butterflies and moths have evolved false heads at the rear ends of their bodies , deflecting the attacks of birds away from their vital organs . |
4 | This is achieved by gently lowering the slide at an angle , into the water , when the surface tension will pull the discs of plastic away from the slide . |
5 | In the latter part of Elizabeth 's reign Burghley began a reform of the system of purveyance , partly perhaps as a response to criticism , partly in an effort to direct the profits of purveyance away from the officials and towards the Crown . |
6 | THE good councillors of Darlington , bent on keeping the wages of sin away from the eyes of their townsfolk , may ponder the growing demands of the homosexual community to have more representation in the ranks of the police . |
7 | The febrile atmosphere of pre-disaster London had already wrought a gear-change in the night scene , the numbers of men away at training barracks having produced a seemingly equal and opposite number of women on the spree . |