Example sentences of "[be] [verb] away [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom .
2 And for this price , what else can you get that combines some of the qualities of three axis aircraft , 17:1 glider and microlight in one finished , handsome package that can be tucked away into a container in the drive ?
3 Not far behind them sat David Thomas and his wife , a jeweller who had looked after the Spencer family for years and sold Diana several pieces : but he was still ‘ just a humble jeweller ’ , and was expecting to be tucked away behind a pillar at the back .
4 Maxol 's Homewarm 600 heat generator , with a maximum output of 6kW , can be hidden away in a kitchen cupboard .
5 Those unfortunate enough to be carried away after a crackdown are uncertain whether they will return alive .
6 Patients who cost a lot might be turned away by a GP .
7 This is scandalous because no child should ever be turned away from a church .
8 He said hastily , ‘ I 'll be going away for a bit and I guess I 'll be ravenous when I get back .
9 But some of them are bad-tempered ratbags who should be locked away in a cellar with a lot of other feminists .
10 Alternatively , the transfers can be scraped away with a scalpel .
11 We are forced to work fast and badly , but we do n't know whether there is any point to it because it may all be swept away in a month ; on the other hand , nothing at all may happen , in which case we will have done it badly to no purpose .
12 When the foam has expanded , any surplus can be trimmed away with a knife
13 And in American communities , major works of literature can be banned from schools and libraries — or even , occasionally , burnt — for challenging traditional scriptural accounts , while a new current of fundamentalism can actually influence American politics through the support of millions eager to be raptured away to a heaven more or less interchangeable with Disneyland .
14 So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home
15 But should parents do that and should the car be taken away with a child in it , those who took the car could be charged with a much more serious offence under section 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984 , punishable by up to seven years ' imprisonment .
16 We stop at a war memorial for what guitarist Graham Lambert ironically calls ‘ a photo opportunity ’ , only to be chased away by a jobsworth demanding a permit , and pause at a sculpture dedicated to the Jews that died in World War 2 , one of those chilling reminders that provide a spot of scary realism in every fantasy city .
17 The aim should be to move away from a subsistence standard of income in social security towards one that allows older people to participate more fully in society .
18 ‘ If you keep asking for things you 'll be too expensive to keep — we 'll all just starve to death or you 'll have to be sent away to a Home where they 'll lock you up .
19 He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times .
20 Out-door paupers should no longer be sent away with a sum of money obviously too little for survival .
21 as if Hitler had arranged this old war for their benefit , just so that Carrie and Nick could be sent away in a train with gas masks slung over their shoulders and their names on cards round their necks .
22 It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour .
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