Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] away [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 2 | Caspar was slowing down , his eyes on a dip towards their left , where the road seemed to fall away into a natural valley . |
| 3 | ANGER among Conservative backbenchers was voiced by the former prime minister Edward Heath last night as Tory MPs appeared to back away from a full-scale rebellion over the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel and power in the Budget . |
| 4 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
| 5 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 6 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 7 | I had got away by a lucky stroke and there would be no problem getting back into the Grand because one of my pals would be on sentry duty and it would be a case of " pass friend " . |
| 8 | The target and the man had walked away up a tree-lined road . |
| 9 | She crouched and picked up part of the brickwork that had crumbled away from a supporting pillar . |
| 10 | His liaisons with various ladies of the Kha-Khan 's court were not a matter which he had ever attempted to keep secret , and more than one irate would-be challenger — usually the father or brother of the lady in question — had gone away with a thoughtful expression on his face after witnessing a display of alien skill at arms . |
| 11 | He had ridden away without a backward look . |