Example sentences of "[verb] away in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 2 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 3 | In freedom , he managed to hide away in the wilds and educate himself . |
| 4 | ‘ At one time , maybe 67 years ago , ’ began Woods , his guide-like voice snatched away in the wind , ‘ Hell Bunker was allowed to ramble . |
| 5 | Furthermore the referee , Colin Hawke , from New Zealand , ruined the game as a spectacle by blasting away in the whistle almost non-stop , awarding a penalty or a free-kick every two minutes or so , mostly against Scotland . |
| 6 | The streets radiated away in every direction like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 7 | When at last the waves sluice over them , each shakes her body convulsively so that the brown eggs swill away in the water and , with a touching gesture of apparent exultation , lifts her claws above her head as if waving a salute . |
| 8 | A tree that goes in a chipper as a 7ft , 20lb pine comes out as a pile of fragrant mulch that can be carried away in a small box to be used in parks or gardens . |
| 9 | And he cited two papers , co-authored by Derek Bryce-Smith , professor of organic chemistry at the University of Reading , as being the result of ‘ individual scientists who have got rather carried away in a flush of enthusiasm . ’ |
| 10 | The muse 's intervention occurs after Astrophil appears to be carried away in a violent frenzy , unable to find a fit language to achieve his ends . |
| 11 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 12 | He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria . |
| 13 | City ( 6th ) , who have not won away in the League since November , are without Quinn ( hamstring and dislocated finger ) , with player-manager Reid likely to recall himself . |
| 14 | Out of India : The snow-wreaths melt away in the heat of battle |
| 15 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 16 | ‘ Time to wake up ’ I said to the threesome snoring away in the back of the support car . |
| 17 | This ambitious piece of engineering , extending for 12 miles between Peterborough and Wisbech , survives today , although the tower Morton built from which to watch over his work-force crumbled away in the early nineteenth century . |
| 18 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 19 | So many young men , too , this sorrowful voice from the past reminds us , torn away in the flower of their youth . |
| 20 | But in this meeting the absolute difference between the two sides remains : it is not dissolved away in a ‘ coincidence of opposites ’ , an ‘ identity in difference ’ , an ‘ eternal God-man unity ’ . |
| 21 | Of course I simply wandered away in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | Allegations about racial harassment simmer away in the background , unhelped by the tiny number of non-whites in police forces up and down the country . |
| 23 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 24 | I can hear Robert sneezing away in the background . |
| 25 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 26 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
| 27 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
| 28 | Maxol 's Homewarm 600 heat generator , with a maximum output of 6kW , can be hidden away in a kitchen cupboard . |
| 29 | Hidden away in a secluded Chilterns valley , Jordans meeting-house has the appearance of a small farmhouse with sparse internal furnishings , and represents a clear visual symbol of the self-effacement and exclusivity of nonconformity . |
| 30 | Father keeps them hidden away in a room off his library . ’ |