Example sentences of "[to-vb] away [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Belgium have won all their four games so far and we need to come away with a share of the spoils . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That 's too many for us to frighten away with a show of force . ’ |
| 3 | And of course , there are apples to be bought at the farm gate and cider from the press to carry away as a reminder of the time spent in the Marcle Ridge . |
| 4 | Set three days aside in your diary ( within the next three months ) to go away to a hotel with your team and tackle the issue . |
| 5 | His quiet rage about the papers , and the idiots who paid good money for them , grew more intense as he began to grind away in a job as a research assistant at the Financial Times . |
| 6 | After a frantic day of arm twisting by Government whips it became clear that potential rebels were prepared to back away from a rebellion in the hope of wringing more concessions from the Government before the Finance Bill , which gives legislative authority to the Budget , comes back to the Commons toward the end of next month . |
| 7 | Yet , although the leaders of both sides of industry worked hard to achieve a common agreement on policies to present to the government the talks , and the influence they exerted , began to wither away after a couple of years , and did not survive into the 1930s . |
| 8 | Big Ben was lucky to get away with a mistake at the second fence in his warm-up round , but is likely to be more careful when it matters . |
| 9 | What we both needed was to get away for a couple of days , to go somewhere peaceful , relaxing and free of any association with the past , where we could work out where we stood . |
| 10 | She had been so pleased when Dr. Briant had suggested she lunch with him in the medical staff dining room , aching as she was to get away for a while at least from the uncomfortable atmosphere of the Maternity Ward . |
| 11 | He was delighted that Hoare planned to get away for a holiday in Switzerland . |
| 12 | She was glad to get away for a change of scene , as it had just been confirmed that Steve had been killed , and her place was taken by Nancy , a tall , dark Scots girl , who fitted into the Met team very well . |
| 13 | However , in order to understand the many ways in which context affects language processing we need to move away from a consideration of single-word recognition to a consideration of how sentences are processed . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman must answer this question : how can he argue that it is in patients ' interests to move away from a system of competitive tendering and use that money to pay trade union members rather than to pay for extra treatment for patients ? |
| 15 | Twenty-four ? — had forty quid to throw away on a bit of sacking . |