Example sentences of "away on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the barracuda charges , the herring flee away on every side , creating a clear tunnel through the shoal . |
| 2 | I could n't believe my eyes when the consultant in charge of my pregnancy came round the antenatal ward in my local hospital , puffing away on a cigar . |
| 3 | Twenty-four ? — had forty quid to throw away on a bit of sacking . |
| 4 | AN EPIC match , of huge social and political significance beyond the narrow confines of Barbados , had almost everything save perhaps a crowd , and reached an enthralling climax on the final morning when South Africa , needing only 79 runs with eight wickets remaining for an historic victory in their first Test for 22 years , were swept away on a floodtide of West Indian pride and aggression . |
| 5 | His quill pen scratched away on a sheet of treated notepaper , creating a little masterpiece of querulous complaint about a mistress Byron was tired of . |
| 6 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 7 | For those of you shying away from hopping around in the water and tired of pedalling away on a bike , a new stepping machine from Powersport International could be just the thing you 're after . |
| 8 | The accumulated bric-à-brac of status which graced many a Victorian family parlour , tucked away on a mahogany table behind the aspidistra , was so often important to.the owners precisely because they felt rather less than secure about their own ranking in an increasingly volatile and uncharted class structure . |
| 9 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ I gave him a good whacking , ’ Wally told police as he was taken away on a stretcher . |
| 11 | Bob is away on a day 's painting course today , so I am catching up with my letters before the Christmas deluge . |
| 12 | Had her love of all these years been thrown away on a man who was incapable of loving in return ? |
| 13 | He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight . |
| 14 | ‘ In any case , were n't you going to be away on a course or something ? ’ |
| 15 | Then he learnt that she was the man 's daughter , and frivolous thoughts were swept away on a tide of sympathy . |
| 16 | We are being swept away on a tide of picaresque Euromovies . |
| 17 | She clung to Jacob 's arm , saw him spirited away on a tide of compliments . |
| 18 | She clung to him and laughed a little through her sobs , and he said : ‘ We shall float away on a tide of your tears if you 're not careful . |
| 19 | From the basic two position , we pull in the mainsheet , we start sailing away on a reach , the wind is blowing directly across the boat and we accelerate away . |
| 20 | Why , Alida thought , in the middle of stripping bare the great bed , why I can go away on a holiday ! |
| 21 | And I can go away on a holiday at last . |
| 22 | In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again . |
| 23 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 24 | ‘ Why wait till they are away on a weekend ? ’ asked Mrs Cornforth . |
| 25 | Eric was away on a school cruise , so there would only be me and her . |
| 26 | The raid in Wadeville industrial zone was followed two hours later by an ambush about four miles away on a mini-bus taxi in which two black passengers were killed . |
| 27 | In a few weeks we can expect to see the likes of Boris Becker chomping away on a banana between sets at Wimbledon , and the saga of the Euro-banana versus the Dollar banana is likely to keep the fruit in the news . |
| 28 | ‘ Then surely it 's rather a waste of time to bury yourself away on a Saturday night when you 'll have the bulk of the work to contend with tomorrow — when the club 's closed . ’ |
| 29 | In both groups the teams play each other home and away on a league basis . |
| 30 | The badly-damaged Toyota is taken away on a breakdown wagon after the head-on crash Picture : CLIFF BRETT |