Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 2 | It could be that the couple simply decided to go away for a few days , but those who know Mrs Allsopp say it 's unlikely she would have left without telling anyone . |
| 3 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 4 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 5 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 6 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 7 | He turned away for a few moments and I could see that he was upset by the news . |
| 8 | You 've said ‘ Fire ! ’ and seen the price of a dozen cameras blow away in a few seconds ' worth of flash and bang , with nothing left at the end to stick in the family album . |
| 9 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 10 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 11 | He chewed away for a few moments and then nodded with pleasure . |
| 12 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
| 14 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 15 | If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ . |
| 16 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
| 17 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 18 | She said to me , " Ca n't you get away for a few days ? " |
| 19 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 20 | As it was , I was lucky to get away with a few bruises if the person who slugged me was the one who knocked off Mahoney . |
| 21 | The jeep driver was pleased at the opportunity to get away for a few hours and we set off about 3 p.m. , arriving in the area of the Highland Division a short time later , after following their divisional signs along the country lanes . |
| 22 | The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members . |
| 23 | They stayed away for a few years , moving between the markets of the Sahel , exploiting differences in prices in different markets , until they had enough camels to go to Cairo . |