Example sentences of "tuck away [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 2 | This is usually tucked away under a fold of skin but it can be quickly erected and used as a weapon . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | The stage is tucked away like a box in the wall . |
| 5 | He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school . |
| 6 | He describes a skylark 's nest which he found tucked away in a hoof print : ‘ Behind a clod/ how snug the nest/ is in a horse 's footing fixed/ of twitch and stubbles roughly dressed/ with roots and horsehair intermixed . ’ |
| 7 | Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable ! |
| 8 | Foldaway slippers for the flight are tucked away in a holdall with disposable nappies and sick tablets . |
| 9 | Got some at home apparently tucked away in a piggy bank or something . |
| 10 | Although it was amongst the women 's glossies as promised , it was still tucked away in a corner with only its spine showing . |
| 11 | Tucked away in a corner of the rear panel is a small stick-on label saying , Made in Taiwan . |
| 12 | He was tucked away in a corner , the only man on his own , a solitary candle illuminating his face as he pored over the paper on which he was writing . |
| 13 | And by the same token that clever little bistro Piers and Amanda found tucked away in a cellar behind Herne Hill tube station was definitely out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The accumulated bric-à-brac of status which graced many a Victorian family parlour , tucked away on a mahogany table behind the aspidistra , was so often important to.the owners precisely because they felt rather less than secure about their own ranking in an increasingly volatile and uncharted class structure . |
| 16 | Moreover we never look hard for what we do n't particularly want to find , and governments ’ revenues and manpower were so highly committed towards programmes of quantitative expansion ( particularly at secondary level ) and subsequently towards keeping the machine they had created running , that few people were prepared to question advice which suggested that a certain new activity could be safely ( and , hopefully , inexpensively ) tucked away at a centre or institute . |
| 17 | They were amazed and delighted to find on that isolated junction the tiniest pub they had ever encountered , tucked away in a bend in the empty road . |
| 18 | Only a young development engineer , tucked away in a corner of a small private factory , is developing a wholly peaceful gadget . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll keep this tucked away in a corner when it 's not needed , ’ he said . |
| 20 | In fact the sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building tucked away in a corner which nobody seemed very keen to visit ! |
| 21 | It is not , to be sure , hugely impressive to look at : a modest , single-storey , office- cum-workshop tucked away in a side street . |
| 22 | However , just as the former advertising salesman had proved in a back-alley off St James ' , that location , location and location was not always sacrosanct if you had an exciting and original concept like The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory , so he went on to confirm the theory at The Rib Shack , tucked away in a side street opposite Harrods . |
| 23 | Eastham parish church , tucked away behind a farmyard , sometimes only attracts 8 worshippers to services . |