Example sentences of "away [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 2 | Children and young people run away for many and varied reasons . |
| 3 | Here we have an uninterrupted view of the prospect , and what a glorious prospect it is , stretching far away for many miles on every hand . |
| 4 | A father 's influence which has been revealed as destructive and all but disastrous is thought to have remained dominant — as was only natural — until the women broke away for good . |
| 5 | The 1980s ended with the tabloids ' confidence waning , and with the Sun 's nudes moving to page five , perhaps to slip away for good . |
| 6 | Unless the likes of Jack Scamp are put away for good , law and order will never have any credibility . |
| 7 | ‘ I am away for eight months a year and we hardly see each other . |
| 8 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 9 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 10 | Well they sent me , I went on a computer course two days before I went to in hospital and was away for eight weeks and I forgot totally |
| 11 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 12 | We have a portion to give away for each reader 's letter we print . |
| 13 | He and Bob were rushing to get a whole day 's work done before lunchtime , in order to get away for poor old Eddy 's funeral in the afternoon , when a woman called Samantha Lightbody rang from the BBC . |
| 14 | In this shot the PSU is mounted sufficiently far away for easy access . |
| 15 | AFTER Monday 's scramble in Southampton , John Major 's egg-splattered jacket was whisked away for dry cleaning . |
| 16 | A man exclaimed , ‘ Shit ! ’ and went away for real . |
| 17 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 18 | Obvious examples are travelling or living abroad , the husband having to be away for long periods , having to relocate , changing children 's schools at an awkward stage in their career , having to do a lot of company entertaining . |
| 19 | Even with Concorde I 'm away for long periods nowadays . ’ |
| 20 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 21 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 22 | And when I arrived home in England , after being away for five years , my wife and children were delighted to see me , because they had thought I was dead . |
| 23 | Fielding would let them drawl or quack away for five minutes , before asking , with a strategic glint : And Shakespeare ? " |
| 24 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm only going to be away for forty-eight hours … ’ |
| 26 | We 've two of the best tickets to give away for Grand National day . |
| 27 | We 've two of the best tickets to give away for Grand National day , so watch closely . |
| 28 | It would , of course , be rather unnatural if weaknesses within the school were n't quietly noted and stored away for future reference . |
| 29 | Kruger favours pen-based machines because he says they make life easier for the user — all he needs to do is ring the bit of text he wants to file away for future reference , and his computer will store it away on hard disk . |
| 30 | All sorts of odd moments occur during the day , in which a page or two of a score can be read and hints stored away for future use . |