Example sentences of "away into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Articles on exhibitions sometimes glide away into topics which have little to do with the art on display . |
| 2 | One drink and the skulk howls away into the night , lean arrogance holds her upright , one shoulder against the wall . |
| 3 | How is a ‘ cognisant episode ’ such as this going to be analysed away into the language of activity ? |
| 4 | The other emerges when he remarks in the opening lines ‘ the regular yet halting rhythm , the smooth uncertainty of movement which may either proceed to greater regularity or fall away into improvisation ’ . |
| 5 | Yet plutonium has been intensively studied , is well understood , and it decays away into harmlessness with a half-life of about 240,000 years . |
| 6 | Cross-examined by John Griffith Williams QC , about why he did not stop for the children , he said that he was concerned not to hit them and instinctively moved away into the fast lane . |
| 7 | At Brighton a month ago we watched Paddy Ashdown keep a tight enough grip on his party to ensure that it does not slip away into the political undergrowth . |
| 8 | Rural teachers melted away into the towns as their schools closed down for lack of pupils and funds . |
| 9 | And he roared away into the night , the rough scales on his throat catching the breeze of his anger and making a hissing hum as he vanished . |
| 10 | She was led away into a crisp-looking cell where she was measured and weighed ; a careful , polite pair of hands found a vein in her strong arm and removed a vial of her blood . |
| 11 | Two fire appliances , lights flashing , wait to one side , their hoses snaking away into the darkness where an explosion has broken all the street lighting . |
| 12 | Unless replenished , many beaches gradually disappear as their sand is carried away into deep water . |
| 13 | The problems experienced by United Motors at its Dublin plant , which the Englishman advised were the major factors which would influence future investment decisions in Ireland , simply melted away into insignificance under their mellifluous tongues . |
| 14 | I was knocked to the ground , and a kind passer-by picked me up and dusted down my soaking clothes as 1 watched Dana walking away into the night . |
| 15 | ‘ No , Jordi , no ! ’ was all I could say as the train slowly carried him away into the dawn . |
| 16 | Men were no longer buried in the shadow of the church where they had worshipped , but were carried away into some strange suburb . |
| 17 | As they belted over the top of the wheel , the wind plucked his laughter away into the night . |
| 18 | Every one had slipped away into the mists during the past two or three years until only she , Dorothea , was left . |
| 19 | At the end of the first circuit Brown Chamberlin , who had been jumping sketchily , was pulled up , and as the field came past the stands and swung away into the country again Bregawn kept up his gallop . |
| 20 | The humming and buzzing sounds of summery woods faded away into a dreadful silence , like the sudden stopping of a heavily ticking clock in a room with shrinking walls . |
| 21 | The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top . |
| 22 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 23 | He 'd gone slowly , regretfully , seeing regret in my face also , an unexpected mutual liking , slipping away into memory . |
| 24 | The treatment plan is not equipped to deal effectively with waste of such high chemical toxicity , and so much of it is passed out in the Yellow Creek to be carried away into the Cumberland River , with the result that the creek has become severely polluted . |
| 25 | Without stopping , the double-decker tramcar , its lights blazing , whined away into the distance . |
| 26 | I was a boy of about thirteen snows when my parents sent me away into the hills … to find my Wyakin . |
| 27 | This must be the ultimate beach resort in all of Greece — five miles of sand stretching away into the distance in either direction — more than enough for even the most demanding beach baby and relaxed enough so that you can always find a place to sunbathe however you want to . |
| 28 | High rocky cliffs pitted with little sandy coves melt away into long stretches of silvery beach . |
| 29 | When the event resumed in September 1989 it was expected to finish off the closing submissions which had already started and then gently fade away into history . |
| 30 | Sinclair steered the discussion away into safer waters , but not before herself and McAnerney had agreed that ‘ the Young Socialists are the biggest problem ’ . |