Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [vb past] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was winter and we made an early start , travelling the seventy-odd miles in darkness so as to arrive with time to tackle up and be fishing as the last dregs of darkness dripped away . |
| 2 | The 17 months of agony washed away at long last . |
| 3 | He watched her from under his lashes , pretending sleep while the last rags of memory dropped away . |
| 4 | The guards behind Rincewind backed away , and their captain took a few paces to the right . |
| 5 | Yet despite fine work going on in many schools , classrooms and library resource centres , it is all too common to find teachers reverting to type , schools with equipment stowed away unused , library resource centres which have become simply print shops for the production of work sheets and diagrams , supplementing teacher.exposition and drill . |
| 6 | Irrigation ditches like thin strips of sky ran away through the flat fields where figures bent to work with short hoes . |
| 7 | As time grew short and the last days of peace slipped away , he began to make arrangements for his departure . |
| 8 | Thus the years at Halton fell away like the beech leaves from the trees around the camp some golden , some dark brown , but only one black that covered the parade grounds and even got into our billets on a windy day in the autumn . |
| 9 | Flash floods in October tore away supporting concrete panels from the base of the Mojkovac dam , bringing it close to collapse . |
| 10 | Bits of truck spun away in every direction , like a firework . |
| 11 | As the last of the concrete missile silos of Alma-Ata slipped away beneath him , Vologsky made his final preparations for the mission proper . |
| 12 | Newspaper reports by reporters who saw the children of Hamelin piped away |
| 13 | Thoughts of Travis floated away as thoughts of Naylor pushed him aside . |
| 14 | The tide had ebbed , and vast stretches and humps of sand shimmered away into a yellow infinity . |
| 15 | If it merely has a few extra grammes of plutonium squirrelled away ( something explicable as an oversight — or the ‘ oops ’ factor ) , then it might be ready to end its quarrel with the rest of the world in return for a deal that could even bring diplomatic recognition from America , together with trade and aid from South Korea and Japan . |
| 16 | His jacket flew open , and gouts of flesh fell away from his ribs . |