Example sentences of "away [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second time because — well , because they had been smart enough to smuggle the guns away right under the noses of the men he had posted to make sure that did n't happen . |
| 2 | In fact , a close examination of a section tucked away right at the end of the Act reveals that it is very vague . |
| 3 | He spat out into the channel , below and to his left , and watched the off-white round of spittle drift away slowly on the water . |
| 4 | Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year . |
| 5 | The tall and ever-cheerful Norman Teacher and his paddler Lieutenant Noel W. Cooper RNVR , were launched in a strong onshore wind but got away successfully from the submarine . |
| 6 | Well you know , in that case you 'll have to wait until he goes away somewhere for the evening . |
| 7 | Send Thomas away somewhere in the shed or |
| 8 | Run away on to the streets ? |
| 9 | They often ran away on to the moors in the morning and stayed out all day , just to make Hindley angry . |
| 10 | City were well in contention when Jon Bland kicked a penalty to make it 6–3 but they fell away badly in the second half . |
| 11 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
| 12 | He had been walking away alone after the meeting . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , being familiar with an approach takes away much of the need for real judgement . |
| 14 | In private Michael still had to keep his end up against attacks , that to be religious was to be a fool , though less frequently now because Frank travelled abroad and was away much of the time . |
| 15 | Early season winds are cold and take away much of the pleasure . |
| 16 | It is n't giving away much of the story to say that Miranda at first sees her mother 's behaviour — alternately doing everything she can to please her husband and then screaming rage at him for letting her down — as a clear example of women 's oppression . |
| 17 | On the lower slopes the ice scraped away much of the surface leaving smooth rounded hills , particularly in the Southern Uplands . |
| 18 | The act of giving birth strips away much of the personal life ; labouring women may cease to notice who is in the room , or to hear what is said . |
| 19 | Colin added : ‘ We will be used as a purchasing arm by British Gas , right down to fairly small items , which takes away much of the administration burden from them . ’ |
| 20 | I find this poem not as effective as ‘ Futility ’ in getting its message across as there does not seem to be much emotion in it and it is very difficult to understand and that takes away much of the effect . |
| 21 | It means shaving away constantly at the sort of multiple objectives which we normally like to set ourselves , until one reaches an absolutely clear message of a mission and role . |
| 22 | Gathering up our two young children , we edged away upstream to the cover of some trees . |
| 23 | ‘ I said we 'd go away together for the weekend , ’ said Preston . |
| 24 | They moved away together towards the music . |
| 25 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 26 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 27 | There is a danger , given the recently acquired powers , that policymaking will move away entirely from the school staff to the governors . |
| 28 | First , by emphasizing that preferences are displaced away somewhat from the familiar , it is possible to explain two facets of the data from humans that would otherwise have seemed incompatible . |
| 29 | It 's interesting this is n't it , we 've moved away somewhat from the old Tory philosophy of erm freedom of choice . |
| 30 | On the right side the hedgerow ran parallel with the road as it sloped away down to the crossroads where we had had so much trouble yesterday . |