Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 2 | Many prospective overseas students told me they wished to return to China to help the nation in the modernisation drive , but they may stay away ‘ a long time ’ before doing so . |
| 3 | The danger that , by trying to protect your future career prospects , you may throw away substantial cash sums in terms of severance payments is a real one , as the case of International Computers Ltd v Kennedy ( 1981 ) illustrates . |
| 4 | At any stage , the machine may jump away from any local minimum ; but as T gets smaller , it is more and more likely to stay near a particular minimum . |
| 5 | It may flesh-out Burbank 's story , and it may strip away some of the glory from the Shakespearian version of Antony 's . |
| 6 | They remind us that this is the very beginning of the idea of representing the world about us as it actually appears ; that we must think away our hindsight and remember that these artists could not see the way ahead . |
| 7 | Think again — T J Rodgers , president and chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor Corp told a Congressional committee on Wednesday last week that there is no monolithic support for Clinton 's budget proposals — the government should not try to build information networks , but ‘ untangle the morass of bureaucracy and regulations ’ that prevent existing fibre optic networks from reaching homes , he said ; he called for deeper cuts in the budget deficit and the end of ‘ wasteful and unnecessary ’ government programmes ; ‘ Washington should stay away from the intricacies of high-tech competition … it should focus instead on the infrastructure of competition , ’ he said ; he also presented written comments criticising the Clinton plan from officials or directors of Amdahl Corp , Cisco Systems Inc , Conner Peripherals Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 8 | But she 's written saying he should stay away . |
| 9 | but I do n't like it I should stay away from him . |
| 10 | I 'm very aggressive in my work , but I must stay away from referees . ’ |
| 11 | MEN who want to attract women should throw away their expensive aftershaves . |
| 12 | Bottle tops , silver paper and tin cans are the last things you should throw away . |
| 13 | What the hon. Gentleman must explain away is why , with the reductions in the upper rate of tax which have taken place under this Government , the contribution of higher rate taxpayers as a proportion of income tax is so much higher . |
| 14 | Since the documents are full of the supernatural , the process of enquiry must strip away subsequent accretions . |
| 15 | These too need to be distributed , for it is better that the next generation should grow away from the parent plant , where they will not suffer from its shade or be deprived of sustenance by its roots . |
| 16 | This image of the crocodile seemingly swallowing her offspring evokes a real primitive horror in human emotions ; it touches the fear of being taken back and devoured by the mother from whom we must grow away . |
| 17 | We have seen that caf can have several roles ; to move toward it we must break away from keeping our learners straightjacketed in systems that do not allow them to express their individual needs and ideas . |
| 18 | Every child must break away from the parental fold , and establish his own personal identity . |
| 19 | Hippos are large vegetarians and must munch away at many different herbs , along with the other plants they eat growing along the river bank |
| 20 | We must clear away one possible source of confusion . |
| 21 | Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' . |
| 22 | Now I think I must run away . |
| 23 | I had the brilliant idea that both Jamila and Jeeta should run away together , but Jeeta would never leave Anwar : Indian wives were n't like that . |
| 24 | No one should run away with the idea bonuses will be easily obtained … bonuses can openly be paid where the Company , through the efforts of its staff , achieves greater profitability than its target , by increasing output and reducing costs . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're suggesting that I should run away from this woman ? ’ |
| 26 | This can develop into a bad habit later , so you should work away at producing a more controlled turn and slow steady flight into wind . |
| 27 | You must wipe away the blood with the damp cloth , like this , and help him to drink a little water . |
| 28 | Nathan was n't quite sure whether he should skulk away or knock and ask to come in . |
| 29 | It should be receptive to pressures for changes in its structure to take account of what oppressed groups say — for instance , it should move away from the very formalized committee structure towards a participative workshop-type framework . |
| 30 | Hari knew she should move away but she could n't , she wanted him to kiss her , to know the feel of a man 's lips against her own , it was only natural to feel that way , was n't it ? |