Example sentences of "[pers pn] away [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they tire of their offerings , Believers throw them away to replace them with ‘ better ’ things . |
| 2 | You need not hurry them away to lie in your sewing-basket or run upstairs to fold them under your handkerchiefs . |
| 3 | Burning brands from the huts and from two galleys the MacIans had fired were seized and thrown into the MacIans ' own ships , to draw some of them away to put out the fires . |
| 4 | After I have cut , straightened and sharpened the stakes I put them away to dry out and stiffen — to season — before they are used . |
| 5 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 6 | His mother might take me away to live with her . |
| 7 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 8 | willi , willing and a a kindly nature but we if it 's in the middle of a game you know , and er , you know how you are when you 're playing a game well they 'd fetch me away to run for some cheese for an old lady . |
| 9 | We whisk you away to visit two beautiful gardens , both completely different in their scope and character . |
| 10 | After asking what they would like to drink , Vitor provided cut-crystal glasses of vinho verde , but his duties as host quickly took him away to pour refills and greet other arrivals . |
| 11 | I asked Jeanne to find as many friends as possible to accompany her on walks with Moby , and to give them control of the lead and take him away to explore without her if they felt confident . |
| 12 | And we talked to him about the Intercity erm presentation requirements , and sent him away to think about it . |
| 13 | ‘ When she sends him away to make jokes in a hospital . |
| 14 | A veterinary is what Uncle Tommy might have been if there had been the money to send him away to train , because he was very good with animals . |
| 15 | When she was younger and thoroughly impatient with her mother she had sometimes entertained a fantasy that Constance would kidnap her and take her away to live with the gipsies : now she felt that she might not have liked it as much as she thought . |
| 16 | A blazing torch landed beside him , and desperately he tossed it away to sizzle out in the water . |
| 17 | Er we you know I put it away to bring it out , out in here ? |
| 18 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 19 | She clicked it and took it away to reveal the red drop of blood that the tiny lancet 's pin prick had produced . |
| 20 | Put it away to warm up , you know . |
| 21 | He 'd put it between slabs of bread then take it away to eat in the streets . |
| 22 | He takes it away to read in private . |
| 23 | ‘ Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness ? |