Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] away [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 2 | His humiliation and fear were washed away by a tide of anger , at this open display of contempt . |
| 3 | Everything the Bookman did was recorded one way or another and now the piles of notes , drawings and maps were locked away in a safe . |
| 4 | It 's almost as if Hook Norton Brewery were locked away in a time warp ; even in the heart of the brewery , the steam engine which runs it is still there . |
| 5 | Well these tables were doing away with a lot of waste . |
| 6 | AN EPIC match , of huge social and political significance beyond the narrow confines of Barbados , had almost everything save perhaps a crowd , and reached an enthralling climax on the final morning when South Africa , needing only 79 runs with eight wickets remaining for an historic victory in their first Test for 22 years , were swept away on a floodtide of West Indian pride and aggression . |
| 7 | Then he learnt that she was the man 's daughter , and frivolous thoughts were swept away on a tide of sympathy . |
| 8 | He knows that the rock that crushed the skull of his great friend John Taylor when the two of them were swept away in a blizzard on the Ben could have finished him instead , but he deals with it calmly . |
| 9 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 10 | According to another report , many of the sheets of Hume 's Mystery of a Hansom Cab were blown away from a street barrow . |
| 11 | For a band that was formed because four teenagers were blown away by a Wedding Present gig in Oxford they still have a lot to learn from their masters . |
| 12 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 13 | He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school . |
| 14 | Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable ! |
| 15 | He was tucked away in a corner , the only man on his own , a solitary candle illuminating his face as he pored over the paper on which he was writing . |
| 16 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 17 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 18 | John Hendrie burst through in the closing minutes , but his strong shot was pushed away for a corner by Bob Bolder . |
| 19 | A mill manufacturing that material was established nearby on the banks of the Church Beck but was washed away in a flood . |
| 20 | One little rascal had picked up a cigarette-end , still burning ( called a dog-end , or dout ) and was puffing away like a steam engine . |
| 21 | Though his body was sweeling away like a torrent on a cliff |
| 22 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 23 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 24 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 25 | The cross was constructed specially and came off the church roof with Crawford as he was winched away by a Wessex helicopter . |
| 26 | The dog was pulled away by a neighbour and locked into a garage . |
| 27 | A few minutes later I was led away to a cell . |
| 28 | No it 's , I think it was taken away to a museum was n't it ? |
| 29 | ‘ I gave him a good whacking , ’ Wally told police as he was taken away on a stretcher . |
| 30 | 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 . |