Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] away in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cars swept away in the torrent at Mochdre last night Pictures : GERALLT JONES |
| 2 | Other commandos may have got ashore for — as mentioned earlier — some German guns were silenced beyond John Roderick 's objectives , but after landing no other commandos got away in the MLs . |
| 3 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 4 | The quality of a work of art , that is to say the maximum level of effectiveness of a work of art , resides in the precision of the means employed to achieve the most profound results , to release the hidden resources locked away in the depths of the reader 's psyche . |
| 5 | Contoured hills hide car parks tucked away in the hollows out of sight — for the cars of yachtsmen , fishermen , ramblers and bird watchers . |
| 6 | They were , however , quite emphatic that there are large quantities of plant nutrients locked away in the soil structure . |
| 7 | So , in the space of three years , the curious puzzle of the shrinking Sun has taken researchers from the studies of dusty old records locked away in the files of the world 's most famous observatory to speculations about the internal workings of the Sun and a grim warning of the possible climatic future that will confront the next generation of human beings on an already overcrowded planet . |
| 8 | Although I left the car park wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt with my warmer clothes packed away in the rucksack , the walk was now a serious business and I was wearing everything I had with me . |