Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was I who got away to the steps up to the morning room , Francis 's sorry steps . |
| 2 | All through the morning , as they sat on the makeshift bunks , they stared without comment at the kneeling figure who ground away at the rust around the bolt . |
| 3 | Backley , who came away from the throwing area clutching an icepack under his right elbow ‘ as a precaution ’ , was fifth best of the 12 qualifiers . |
| 4 | It was a demoralised Don Peters who drove away from The London Hilton and the all-American farewell party that had been laid on for him by Clancy McGillicuddy . |
| 5 | Successive Foreign Secretaries , the ambassadorial input , the input of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and especially the input of those who beaver away at the top of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in dim Victorian rooms have made a tremendous contribution to the unique catalytic role which my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary mentioned . |
| 6 | And while the UK red-and-white breeds might seem the obvious target for NRF salesmen , Prof King believes breeders of black-and-white cattle who shy away from the extreme Holstein type may find the NRF of interest . |
| 7 | The " white-knuckle " sufferer who stays away from the substance or behaviour of addiction by grim determination , sometimes aided and abetted by non-addictive , anti-euphoriant or aversion-therapy drugs or processes is a pitiful sight . |
| 8 | But Keyser Ullmann had to be rescued following the failure of a £17 million corporate loan to someone with no references who walked away with the money . |
| 9 | CART ( Championship Auto Racing Teams Inc. ) was founded in 1978 by Roger Penske and " Pat " Patrick who broke away from the United States Auto Club ( USAC ) to form their own series of races . |
| 10 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |
| 11 | Later on in my career , again in the press , he called me a ‘ sheltered athlete ’ who kept away from the main opposition . |
| 12 | He too had been at Oxford , studying Science , and he was another of the twelve prize recruits who marched away from the City of Dreaming Spires . |
| 13 | The attacker on the left presses forward against the defeated who leans away to the right . |
| 14 | A bid to reduce bills for rural householders who live away from the district 's three main cemeteries , by making them pay less for burial services , was narrowly defeated . |
| 15 | An Honourable Death is an imaginative recreation of the life of Hector MacDonald , the son of a Highland stonemason who ran away to the Army when 17 and by the end of the last century had become the hero of several adventures in far-flung parts of the British Empire . |
| 16 | Oh So Risky , who ran away with the Triumph Hurdle — the crown for four-year-olds — at the 1991 Festival , came to the final flight in last year 's Champion Hurdle with the race apparently won , and Sheikh Mohammed 's Royal Gait had to bash two others aside to finally get to David Elsworth 's five-year-old in a photo finish . |