Example sentences of "[vb pp] away [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents . |
| 2 | Carried away on a rushing tide of dark enchantment , she quivered as his tongue caressed her skin , his mouth feather-light as it brushed enticingly , back and forth , over her swollen nipples . |
| 3 | But Clive Lawton , head of educational services , said there was still a long way to go , and he warned against being carried away with a good idea if it were to impoverish the rest of the scheme . |
| 4 | A tree that goes in a chipper as a 7ft , 20lb pine comes out as a pile of fragrant mulch that can be carried away in a small box to be used in parks or gardens . |
| 5 | The muse 's intervention occurs after Astrophil appears to be carried away in a violent frenzy , unable to find a fit language to achieve his ends . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
| 8 | ‘ I jettisoned the wood , climbed down the path and there , neatly stashed away in a narrow inlet between the rocks , was my castaway , complete with gash on temple , soaked through , ice-cold to the touch and so deeply unconscious I thought at first you were dead . ’ |
| 9 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 10 | According to Sampson , many other features of transformational grammar can be explained away in a similar fashion once one adopts this evolutionary perspective . |
| 11 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 12 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 13 | Maybe it 's tucked away on a high shelf somewhere . ’ |
| 14 | Tucked away in a small street off London 's Spitalfields Market is a house that is not all it would seem from the outside . |
| 15 | Our dwelling place was clean and very isolated ; for we were tucked away in a deep hollow , and all around the tumbling sand dunes encompassed us about . |
| 16 | Tucked away in a quiet court hidden from the bustle of Covent Garden is Diametric , making and selling modern , mainly metal , furniture by designer Stephen Povey . |
| 17 | Tucked away in a quiet part of the town , mostly inhabited by better-class salesmen and small businessmen , it was a second storey apartment . |
| 18 | In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband . |
| 19 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 20 | Pick up some tubes of Daler-Rowney 's Designer Gouache and you could find yourself whisked away on a colourful trip to Venice and Rome . |
| 21 | No ; it was the romance of the whole thing that was getting to her ; after all , it was n't every day you were whisked away on a white charger … well , a modern car made a good substitute . |
| 22 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 23 | The star kissed her three children goodbye before they were whisked away in a chauffeur-driven car with their nanny and John 's brother Patrick . |
| 24 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 25 | It was offered for sale at £13,500 , but was eventually leased away as a small factory , which it remains . |
| 26 | I think we should have got away with a small Coke , should n't we ? |
| 27 | THIEVES have got away with a substantial amount of cash from the main branch of Lloyds Bank in Darlington . |
| 28 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |