Example sentences of "[verb] away in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 2 | A tree that goes in a chipper as a 7ft , 20lb pine comes out as a pile of fragrant mulch that can be carried away in a small box to be used in parks or gardens . |
| 3 | The muse 's intervention occurs after Astrophil appears to be carried away in a violent frenzy , unable to find a fit language to achieve his ends . |
| 4 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 5 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 6 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
| 7 | Police at Ames , Iowa , are looking for a one-legged burglar who stole a three-legged Labrador dog from an electrical contracting business and got away in a stolen pick-up truck . |
| 8 | ‘ I jettisoned the wood , climbed down the path and there , neatly stashed away in a narrow inlet between the rocks , was my castaway , complete with gash on temple , soaked through , ice-cold to the touch and so deeply unconscious I thought at first you were dead . ’ |
| 9 | According to Sampson , many other features of transformational grammar can be explained away in a similar fashion once one adopts this evolutionary perspective . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tucked away in a small street off London 's Spitalfields Market is a house that is not all it would seem from the outside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Tucked away in a quiet part of the town , mostly inhabited by better-class salesmen and small businessmen , it was a second storey apartment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The rest of the animals had been roughed off and turned away in a distant paddock . |
| 20 | This it does by turning away in a deliberate manner and refusing to look again at the glowering face . |
| 21 | At Faial there is a new bridge over the Ribeira Seca as the old one was washed away in a violent storm a few years ago . |
| 22 | The ball soared away in a graceful arc . |
| 23 | With no prospect of campaigning , and stuck away in a bleak piece of desert , I find things get a bit grim sometimes . |
| 24 | But whatever the origins the fairy folk warning has never been left to chance and the ‘ Luck ’ still exists ; it is either locked away in a strong room on the premises or according to some accounts stored safely in the custody of the Bank of England . |
| 25 | Perhaps she could fade away in a faded villa like the Villa Fiesole where the Durance coterie had faded to nothing . |
| 26 | Murrell , a grey blanket covering his head , was driven away in a green Rover to begin the motorway dash . |
| 27 | The remnants of feudalism , the Tsar , and the old landowning nobility , must first be swept away in a bourgeois revolution which would inaugurate the full flowering of capitalism . |
| 28 | It would be a long while before he turned into one of the Elders , hiding away in a living death , nurturing their effete Dreams , too fastidious to get involved with the tumult of humanity . |
| 29 | THE state is withering away in a very unMarxist fashion in Punjab . |
| 30 | On the shelf beside them a PMR set was gabbling away in a foreign language . |