Example sentences of "'s been [verb] away " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The JD 's neck has exactly the same depth , but it 's been dressed away a touch more in the shoulders to give a more sharply peaked V , especially down near the nut . |
| 2 | His ‘ melancholia ’ , with all its evocative associations for me , no longer exists as a diagnosis — it 's been swept away into the vast , featureless ocean of modern ‘ depression ’ . |
| 3 | It 's been given away on computer disc in a wideselling magazine as well . |
| 4 | ‘ The thing is , Management will listen to him and he 'll get what he wants , not like poor old Ron who 's been waffling away for years and not getting anywhere . |
| 5 | Madam may feel that having spent so much time in custody for the first offence that he has already suffered sufficient punishment , he 's been kept away from his girlfriend and children , and under those circumstances I would urge you Madam to take a lenient course of action , to make him the subject of a conditional discharge . |
| 6 | You 'd better swear an oath of secrecy , or Nicola Schreider will not be amused to find out Guy 's been playing away even before they 're married ! ’ |
| 7 | to look at er , a P R job about changing the way those resources are used so that they 're used in the way that 's been talked away , er , talked about tonight which is way that clearly many wo , many women want to see them being used . |
| 8 | His father 's been put away for as long as need be till he comes to his senses : he 's actually nuts . |
| 9 | It does n't make any difference to us , ’ shrugs Tim in his guttural Salford grind that 's been chipped away by ten odd years of living in Cheshire . |
| 10 | It does n't make any difference to us , ’ shrugs Tim in his guttural Salford grind that 's been chipped away by ten odd years of living in Cheshire . |
| 11 | I 've already experienced a full life and now it 's been taken away . ’ |
| 12 | Erm once the development er that would have been g going into Selby actually goes into the new settlement then it 's me it 's either meeting the new settlement 's er sorry the the it 's either meeting the goals of Greater York , in which case that 's been taken away from Selby , or it 's substituting for Selby . |
| 13 | That it 's been taken away . |
| 14 | The Evesham Laboratory was set up to serve growers in the Vale of Evesham and it 's been taken away and Wolverhampton is quite out of the question . |
| 15 | So it 's been towed away . |