Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] away [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most British coalfields were developed away from established population centres and required the provision of housing for miners recruited from elsewhere . |
| 2 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
| 3 | The slow fission of Gondwanaland produced two oceans — the Indian , where Africa , India and Antarctica were hauled away from each other ; and the southern portion of the Atlantic , where South America and its clearly closely-fitting neighbour Africa ( which possessed an uncanny coastal match first noted by Francis Bacon ) sprang apart . |
| 4 | How much better if this shrill hyper-nationalism were sliced away from New Democracy . |
| 5 | She promised violent action if the social workers put one foot on the stairs , and went to get the children up and dressed herself , accompanied and watched by a policewoman ; then her eight-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son were taken away without further comment , but the policewoman encouraged the children to take some clothes and other possessions with them . |
| 6 | The village was , as she had thought , a dump , where time was whittled away in some vintage manner . |
| 7 | AFTER Monday 's scramble in Southampton , John Major 's egg-splattered jacket was whisked away for dry cleaning . |
| 8 | I became frustrated almost to screaming when I had finished a well-received and humorous story about the death of my grandfather and found that she was turned away in deep conversation with another woman . |
| 9 | Their udders dropped and their teats became larger and more pendulous so that when they lay down in their stalls the vital milk-producing organ was pushed away to one side into the path of the neighbouring animals . |
| 10 | If no deal was made , the animal was spirited away to another district . |
| 11 | I 've suddenly remembered that the programme that really infuriated me , when I was tired and wet and Paddy Ashdown was getting away with sheer murder before my eyes , and the polls looked terminal for the Tories , and I was beginning to think that the whole thing was rigged against us , was not the BBC at all . |
| 12 | That was all of the glass that was worn away in that time . |
| 13 | But before she could inquire any further , Mr Carter was dragged away by anxious security personnel . |
| 14 | The Georgian military command in Sukhumi said the Russian plane made seven attempts to attack the city on Saturday , but was driven away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 15 | For a moment animosity was swept away by mutual interest and , as she led him towards the recovery cage , she felt a pang of regret that their relationship could not be friendly . |
| 16 | Her daughter was taken away to Special Care , and she , like Nickie , hated seeing fathers come in looking pleased while she sat alone on her bed , waiting for her mother . |
| 17 | Charles and Patrick had remained in the little sitting room while John went to talk to his wife and mother before he was taken away for further debriefing . |
| 18 | Is he able to make an announcement about a review of the assisted area status for west Cumbria which was taken away from that area in the early 1980s ? |
| 19 | Ironically , when DG started out with AViioN , the fashion was to get away from proprietary silicon onto merchant microprocessors . |
| 20 | McKeown 's main purpose was to take away from scientific medicine any credit for the decline in mortality which took place in England and Wales in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | The intention was to move away from detailed course scrutiny as colleges ‘ grew in excellence ’ . |
| 22 | As part of their representations on the 1981 Finance Bill , the Law Society recommended that income should not be " relevant income " to the extent that it was paid away to some person other than the recipient of the relevant benefit either before or after the receipt of the relevant benefit as it had by then ceased to be available as a source of funds out of which the relevant benefit could be paid . |