Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] away [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the MIND report concludes , not only must the system be made more user friendly , but it must move away from a supply-led to a consumer-oriented approach . |
| 2 | ‘ What would you say if I told you I must go away for a week ? |
| 3 | ‘ You should get away for a bit , ’ Helen continued . |
| 4 | While in the summer you might get away with a pair of trail boots , I would always want to wear something more substantial for traditional British hill-walking . |
| 5 | ‘ We could go away for a bit — a break ; a couple of weeks perhaps . |
| 6 | We could go away for a weekend together , we could ; we could wake up next morning and eat croissants and drink coffee from blue china bowls . |
| 7 | erm We feel we can do well , I 'd be ecstatic if we could come away with a world championship point , I think we possibly can if we 're a bit lucky . |
| 8 | Early that afternoon , as soon as she could get away from a lunch with colleagues from her department , Loretta set off for the Sunday Herald building . |
| 9 | If you have a poor memory you could slip away for a moment and write yourself a quick note . |
| 10 | All the way through school , my mum used to go away for a fortnight 's rest during the summer and I would go and stay in one of the various holiday homes for disabled children . |
| 11 | Sometimes she would stay away for a day or two . |
| 12 | She clung to him and laughed a little through her sobs , and he said : ‘ We shall float away on a tide of your tears if you 're not careful . |
| 13 | As a rationalist , I had but to snap my rational fingers , it might be argued , and the devil would fade away in a puff of smoke . |
| 14 | A plan occurred to her ; she and Lucy would go away for a weekend to the heart of the country , roses round the door , and find out how they would be lovers . |
| 15 | Many a time a fellow would get away with a caution . |
| 16 | Those were the words he spoke to her as she lay in his arms in the vulnerable moments following his pleasure when only a lout — in his opinion — would turn away from a woman without a word and go to sleep . |
| 17 | If she eased up on this will for just a moment , love would fly away like a bird released from its cage . |
| 18 | And at the end of the day he 's tired , he 's physically weary , and he says let's get away for a while let's go over to the other side . |
| 19 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 20 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 21 | But he will slip away for a holiday in a luxury Spanish villa after the final ceremony . |
| 22 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 23 | Why , Alida thought , in the middle of stripping bare the great bed , why I can go away on a holiday ! |
| 24 | And I can go away on a holiday at last . |
| 25 | I can go away from a conversation and half an hour later I think I should have said that |
| 26 | And you think about this for a while — how a 72-year-old man can get away with a storyline that rappers 50 years his junior would get a battering for . |
| 27 | You can get away with a lot of things at Oxford , but disappearing off the face of the earth just before term starts is not one of them . |