Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 32 | Ways of retreat from this point are various and there is even a metal ring — I hesitate to say bolt — to facilitate an abseil. the able can reverse the climbs on the pinnacle 's short side and the crazy always have the option of hobbling away with a sprained ankle after ‘ successfully ’ negotiating Cook 's Leap , the jump across the gully to the main edge ! |
| 33 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 34 | And if I could n't make away with myself , how could the malais make away with a whole nation ? |
| 35 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 36 | Maybe it 's tucked away on a high shelf somewhere . ’ |
| 37 | Tucked away in a small street off London 's Spitalfields Market is a house that is not all it would seem from the outside . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Tucked away in a quiet court hidden from the bustle of Covent Garden is Diametric , making and selling modern , mainly metal , furniture by designer Stephen Povey . |
| 40 | Tucked away in a quiet part of the town , mostly inhabited by better-class salesmen and small businessmen , it was a second storey apartment . |
| 41 | A BEWILDERED 10-year-old boy was left to wander the streets for hours after being turned away from a police-run sports centre . |
| 42 | In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband . |
| 43 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 44 | Pick up some tubes of Daler-Rowney 's Designer Gouache and you could find yourself whisked away on a colourful trip to Venice and Rome . |
| 45 | No ; it was the romance of the whole thing that was getting to her ; after all , it was n't every day you were whisked away on a white charger … well , a modern car made a good substitute . |
| 46 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 47 | The star kissed her three children goodbye before they were whisked away in a chauffeur-driven car with their nanny and John 's brother Patrick . |
| 48 | ‘ I paid cash and drove away with a funny feeling in stomach over my decision , ’ Darren recalls . |
| 49 | He revved the engine , and Fran stepped back and slammed the door with a touch more force than was really necessary , watching as he drove away without a backward glance . |
| 50 | They took this idea to Prince Charles ' Youth Business Trust — and came away with a low-interest loan for £4,000 . |
| 51 | And we came away with a true understanding of the value of the estuarine habitat . |
| 52 | The panel came away after a little while ; he put it on the floor in front of him , and wriggled through on his elbows and knees into the darkness beyond . |
| 53 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 54 | She enjoyed the discipline of eating them without butter — the idea of keeping pats of butter overnight in a bedroom was abhorrent to her , incompatible with her picture of herself , swansdown on her bedjacket , broderie anglaise at her wrists , nibbling away in a leisured manner , her widow 's weeds for the moment forgotten . |
| 55 | It was offered for sale at £13,500 , but was eventually leased away as a small factory , which it remains . |
| 56 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |
| 57 | Go through an unobtrusive door at the back of the Trent Bridge pavilion then turn left into a book-lined room , and on any match day you 'll find the central table occupied by the owner of a moustache of impressively Victorian dimensions , like as not tapping away on a venerable-looking typewriter . |
| 58 | The detonation faded away to a muted roar . |
| 59 | They usually run them at below peak efficiency , they run The Russian reactors they tend to run 'em at maximum efficiency which is you 're very very close to the critical level where it could run away with a little mistake and whoops , you got Chernobyl . |
| 60 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |