Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents were due to go away on holiday at the start of the following week . |
| 2 | The £1m that got away |
| 3 | that skips away like his own renegade , |
| 4 | That stands away from the wall . |
| 5 | ‘ So you have got some tucked away . ’ |
| 6 | Problems may have been built into the original design through the inadequate protection of timber from ground moisture , lack of ventilation or roof-slopes which were insufficiently steep to drain away all rainwater . |
| 7 | Okay are you willing to go away and |
| 8 | A complex negotiation was made between the Davids Price and Tallichet for aircraft and services , the result in Spitfire terms would be that Tallichet would receive TP298 in flying trim and SM845 was free to float away if appropriate . |
| 9 | But under the ground they were half rusted away . |
| 10 | He must not only master their content but be prepared to haggle away those items he finds unacceptable in acrimonious negotiations which may last many hours and in which ignorance is ruthlessly exposed . |
| 11 | This stripping away of extraneous duties continued under its successor , the College of Foreign Affairs , which began to function in 1719 , and well before the end of the century this process of specialization had been completed . |
| 12 | And as the Rangers coach prepared to pull away from Elland Road with Tina Turner 's ‘ Simply the Best ’ blasting out of its sound system , Hateley said : ‘ It was a great result and one of the best goals of my career . |
| 13 | I wave some smoke away and ask if he 's selling roast chestnuts . |
| 14 | And I think this done away with a lot of entries and keeping people away from meetings . |
| 15 | If they could learn to be civil to each other , maybe even friendly , it would make it very much easier to walk away from him when this was all over . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , there is ; it 's easier to walk away from a girlfriend when the time comes . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I very much doubt if you would be willing to walk away now in any case . |
| 18 | Accordingly , unless this House is prepared to sweep away long-established law , there is no jurisdiction in the court to review a visitor 's decision for error of law committed within his jurisdiction . |
| 19 | In the new activity of urban reconstruction , plans were prepared to sweep away the inadequacies of the past and heal the scars of war damage . |
| 20 | " It was a lovely day , " she said flatly half turning away . |
| 21 | It hid the shamed colour that stormed into her cheeks as she sat up , half turning away from him . |
| 22 | Even if you are careful to wipe away as much of the cleanser as possible , faint traces will still remain , and this can be irritating for the skin . |
| 23 | ‘ He is an old woman , ’ she replied , and half turned away with a swish of her sea-green silk dress . |
| 24 | As they approached the workshop at the Piggeries — there had been no pigs there since her grandfather 's day — she saw the clump of men , half turned away , appearing uninterested . |
| 25 | There are some people who think that I was wrong to give away my crown . |
| 26 | She did not try on the apricot chiffon , with panels of silver beads back and front , some of them loosened , some vanished away as though a bead-eating insect had been at it . |
| 27 | With all these promotions you must be prepared to give away quite large numbers of the product . |
| 28 | Thus , two huge ‘ bulges ’ of water appear in the oceans , one facing towards the Moon and another facing away from it . |
| 29 | ‘ We also know genetics affect whether one person has a heart attack on a rotten diet while another gets away with it . ’ |
| 30 | 12 Breaking away is hard to do |