Example sentences of "be [verb] away [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foldaway slippers for the flight are tucked away in a holdall with disposable nappies and sick tablets . |
| 2 | Non-resonant absorption of a photon , in which both surplus energy and surplus linear momentum are carried away by a photon of lower energy , is a much less favorable process . |
| 3 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 4 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |
| 5 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 6 | Green himself had been turned away from a polling station in the capital , Georgetown , for lack of identity papers ; this prompted his supporters , drawn from slum districts , to go on the rampage , attacking the Commission 's headquarters and that of the PPP and looting and vandalising scores of Indian shops . |
| 7 | We 'll tell her we 're going away for a breather . ’ |
| 8 | You need n't think you 're getting away with a thing . |
| 9 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 10 | Also , if we turn away uncritically from a voice-we hate or fear , then we are turning away from a source of conflict — and conflict is one of the writer 's richest foods . |
| 11 | Nothing if not bold , Welles opens with a funeral procession in which the bodies of Othello and Desdemona are borne away by a line of figures dramatically silhouetted against a pale sky , while Iago is led away in chains to be hoist aloft in a metal cage . |
| 12 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 13 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Maxol 's Homewarm 600 heat generator , with a maximum output of 6kW , can be hidden away in a kitchen cupboard . |
| 17 | Those unfortunate enough to be carried away after a crackdown are uncertain whether they will return alive . |
| 18 | Patients who cost a lot might be turned away by a GP . |
| 19 | This is scandalous because no child should ever be turned away from a church . |
| 20 | I 'm going away for a while , give you time to pack your things . |
| 21 | He said hastily , ‘ I 'll be going away for a bit and I guess I 'll be ravenous when I get back . |
| 22 | But some of them are bad-tempered ratbags who should be locked away in a cellar with a lot of other feminists . |
| 23 | Alternatively , the transfers can be scraped away with a scalpel . |
| 24 | We are forced to work fast and badly , but we do n't know whether there is any point to it because it may all be swept away in a month ; on the other hand , nothing at all may happen , in which case we will have done it badly to no purpose . |
| 25 | When the foam has expanded , any surplus can be trimmed away with a knife |
| 26 | And in American communities , major works of literature can be banned from schools and libraries — or even , occasionally , burnt — for challenging traditional scriptural accounts , while a new current of fundamentalism can actually influence American politics through the support of millions eager to be raptured away to a heaven more or less interchangeable with Disneyland . |
| 27 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 28 | But should parents do that and should the car be taken away with a child in it , those who took the car could be charged with a much more serious offence under section 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984 , punishable by up to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 29 | We stop at a war memorial for what guitarist Graham Lambert ironically calls ‘ a photo opportunity ’ , only to be chased away by a jobsworth demanding a permit , and pause at a sculpture dedicated to the Jews that died in World War 2 , one of those chilling reminders that provide a spot of scary realism in every fantasy city . |
| 30 | The aim should be to move away from a subsistence standard of income in social security towards one that allows older people to participate more fully in society . |