Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must explain that I do not like combined heater stats ; in general I find that the heater part packs up within a year , as , regrettably do modern heaters , and I would rather throw away a £5 heater than a £10 plus heater stat . |
| 2 | If the pair of you would rather stay away , then so be it ; but you must not be surprised if the rest of us refuse to be inconvenienced by such behaviour . ’ |
| 3 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
| 4 | When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design . |
| 5 | We 'd better stay away from here for the moment . ’ |
| 6 | Drugs do nothing to remove the cause of a headache which more often than not stems from nervous and muscular tension , something aromatherapy massage will gently soothe away . |
| 7 | A wash and brush up keeps the wheels in good shape … but sometimes mechanics can only sratch away at the problem . |
| 8 | The wretched animal could only carry away one chicken but he bit the heads off all the others in a sheer lust of killing . ’ |
| 9 | She said if I were you I 'd have breakfast , she said if you had something like porridge , you 'd feel more full and you could perhaps do away with your mid morning four rounds of cheese on toast , she said , perhaps , what d' ya want ? |
| 10 | Anyway — ’ She looked down on her partly eaten meal and her nose wrinkled before she went on , ‘ I 've got to go downstairs again , and you 'd better clear away here when you 've finished , then go into Mother and see if you can soothe her ruffled feathers . |
| 11 | At the moment , Fergie 's high-flyers look as if they can only give away the title if it was not for carelessness against Newcastle they would still have a 100% record . |
| 12 | You two girls had better keep away from that part of the world while they 're about . |
| 13 | Like I said , we 'd all better keep away from cabin 10 and all that carrying on . |
| 14 | ‘ Then you 'd better keep away from the disco , ’ said Willis . |
| 15 | Erm , you 'd better keep away from Papa . |
| 16 | The trouble was that she would never say , she would only look away and murmur vaguely , ‘ You decide … ’ |
| 17 | Slavery , to Sheffield female abolitionists , was essentially unlawful ; human laws could only take away what they could create . |
| 18 | I 'm sure the , I 'm sure they 'll all go away very when you , before you came . |
| 19 | Chair can I make a suggestion quite clearly a large number of people have made some very good and valid recommendations or suggestions to you and the board this evening and you 've said on many occasions this evening the board will obviously go away discuss those and take a view on the particular ideas . |
| 20 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 21 | Messrs Lyall and McGiven will soon realise that you can only get away with boring , negative football whilst is bring results — ask John Duncan . |
| 22 | Messrs Lyall and McGiven will soon realise that you can only get away with boring , negative football whilst it bring results — ask John Duncan . |
| 23 | That does n't mean to say that you 'd have let them necessarily get away with it on the spot but you you 're still going to do a persuasive tact but in the end if they say no fine . |
| 24 | I was seeking a scrap of common ground on which we could mutually back away from the argument . |
| 25 | and we 'll just a wee gentle syringe and it 'll all come away . |
| 26 | I do n't think that this is a challenge that the government should necessarily shy away from , since there is a shared interest in putting some reality into the debate . |
| 27 | Like an actor in a Monty Python sketch , I suddenly fiddled with my fingers as though checking my nails and said , ‘ You 'd better get away , the police are coming ’ — as if I had run up specially to tell him . |
| 28 | But once the adrenalin spurts back into your system it will not gently leak away . |
| 29 | Norman could only parry away Thompson 's powerful shot but he recovered superbly to turn Kiwomya 's follow-up drive over the bar . |
| 30 | After eleven minutes , City went one up ; Thomas did well on the right to curb a shot on goal , but Kevin O'Shaughnessy could only parry away . |