Example sentences of "were [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most British coalfields were developed away from established population centres and required the provision of housing for miners recruited from elsewhere . |
| 2 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 3 | Those changes that were noticed were explained away as disturbances in the upper atmosphere . |
| 4 | These nearly opaque layers were stripped away along with several areas of retouching . |
| 5 | Until now British TV licences were given away free , mostly to firms headed by establishment figures . |
| 6 | The company also made records for the ‘ World-echo ’ and ‘ Siemens ’ labels , and they were given away as Christmas presents in giant Christmas crackers made by Mead & Fields Ltd . |
| 7 | They were given away free . |
| 8 | In the late fifth-century Babylonian satrapy ‘ bow land ’ and ‘ chariot land ’ were given away on condition that the owners for the time being paid for soldiers or cavalry . |
| 9 | Mr Brownlow bought him a new suit and new shoes , and Oliver 's dirty old clothes were given away . |
| 10 | Brides were given away . |
| 11 | Various detector companies sent donations of gift which were given away at all three fetes . |
| 12 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 13 | It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features . |
| 14 | Were there any things that were given away , that might be of high value to the opposition , given away for less than nothing . |
| 15 | In fact , you probably needed some barrels , and I 'm sure or were given away . |
| 16 | The auctioneer says they can fetch up to £20,000 , not bad when they were given away free originally . |
| 17 | All too popular with passing children at the show , the balloons were given away in return for a small donation to the Sports Council . |
| 18 | were eased away by the warmth of morning . |
| 19 | All thoughts of Seal Sands Lock were stashed away , safe from the mockery of people like Gazzer . |
| 20 | For many indigenes this meant that their once dependable resources were whittled away to the point of non-sustainability . |
| 21 | The aldermanic principle was carried into the new county councils , and there were other indications that power would not easily be dispersed : ‘ the provisions for decentralisation … were whittled away , and in the end very little was left of the grand scheme of devolution ’ ( Redlich and Hirst 1958:207 ) . |
| 22 | The audience appeared to be loving every minute Smashing Pumpkins were shambling away on stage . |
| 23 | Our dwelling place was clean and very isolated ; for we were tucked away in a deep hollow , and all around the tumbling sand dunes encompassed us about . |
| 24 | Several state governors were tucked away safely in his pocket . |
| 25 | The dining tables were tucked away in high-sided compartments like old-fashioned church pews . |
| 26 | When the car became an open tourer , the hood and supports were tucked away behind the leather-covered front seats and concealed by a sheet of green hessian . |
| 27 | The ban was imposed in 1987 , when it was found that up to 4,000 swans were wasting away every year because of lead poisoning caused by swallowing discarded weights . |
| 28 | They were hidden away , and people tried not to let anyone see them . |
| 29 | Those themes , some of which are very clear within the document , others were hidden away in 1983 and have become more important since then . |
| 30 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |