Example sentences of "[verb] away to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearing a chic black costume and white fur wrap , she is seen waving to him as he departs for the colony before walking away to a smart car beside which stands a chauffeur . |
| 2 | Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds . |
| 3 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 4 | Cash is paid in , drawn out or paid away to a third party by means of cheques . |
| 5 | The detonation faded away to a muted roar . |
| 6 | Most of us would probably panic , think catastrophic thoughts , breathe rapidly , run away to a safe place , call out the doctor , and make a will . |
| 7 | England raced away to a 6–0 lead in the first 15 minutes , and only good saves by goalkeeper Karen Owen throughout the match averted disaster for Wales . |
| 8 | I shall do my very best for him and , if anything you say is true , getting away to a different atmosphere with other boys will be the answer . |
| 9 | Although the Australians , who had a magnificent second half , only pulled away to a resounding victory in the last ten minutes , the harsh truth is that the Boks never looked like scoring . |
| 10 | Late on Saturday night , they were smuggled away to a safe area of the field and one of the teams was driven home to London . |
| 11 | The chilling pictures of tiny James Bulger being led away to a brutal death have touched millions , not just because of the tragedy that befell a little boy but because they have made people realise how much their own lives have become defiled by fear of crime . |
| 12 | THE pathetic picture of a trusting little boy being led away to a brutal death has stirred the nation 's conscience . |
| 13 | Oliver was led away to a large room , where , on a rough hard bed , he cried himself to sleep . |
| 14 | On one side of the ancient north-south coastal highway linking Saigon and Hanoi steep cliffs fell away to a dazzling beach of white sand fringed with coconut palms , and on the mirror-flat surface of the South China Sea far below , bat-winged Chinese junks floated at rest like toys on a turquoise pond . |
| 15 | The screech died away to a strangulated hissing as though the victim had clamped his lower lip with his teeth , biting with all the force of a steel beast-trap . |
| 16 | The back garden ended at a short steep scarp falling away to a small stream crossed only by a footbridge . |
| 17 | The Welsh star was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 18 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 19 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend , Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 20 | ‘ Next year will be hard work -but perhaps the year after that I 'll get the chance to break away to a Greek isle and do a Shirley Valentine … ‘ |
| 21 | ‘ You are nine years old and you are going to be sent away to a good school , and you must take advantage of all they teach you . |