Example sentences of "was [verb] away [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 2 | He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school . |
| 3 | Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 6 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 7 | John Hendrie burst through in the closing minutes , but his strong shot was pushed away for a corner by Bob Bolder . |
| 8 | A mill manufacturing that material was established nearby on the banks of the Church Beck but was washed away in a flood . |
| 9 | One little rascal had picked up a cigarette-end , still burning ( called a dog-end , or dout ) and was puffing away like a steam engine . |
| 10 | Though his body was sweeling away like a torrent on a cliff |
| 11 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 12 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 13 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 14 | The cross was constructed specially and came off the church roof with Crawford as he was winched away by a Wessex helicopter . |
| 15 | The dog was pulled away by a neighbour and locked into a garage . |
| 16 | A few minutes later I was led away to a cell . |
| 17 | No it 's , I think it was taken away to a museum was n't it ? |
| 18 | ‘ I gave him a good whacking , ’ Wally told police as he was taken away on a stretcher . |
| 19 | What we both needed was to get away for a couple of days , to go somewhere peaceful , relaxing and free of any association with the past , where we could work out where we stood . |
| 20 | She had been so pleased when Dr. Briant had suggested she lunch with him in the medical staff dining room , aching as she was to get away for a while at least from the uncomfortable atmosphere of the Maternity Ward . |
| 21 | The shadow broke like a cloud , and was blown away in a gust of rueful laughter . |
| 22 | A dark cloud rose from Carey 's head and was swatted away by a wave ; it made a little slick that thinned and trailed out to sea . |
| 23 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 24 | The Worcestershire man had barely 40 overs under his belt in six Tests before this one , but here he was wheeling away in a marathon spell stretching into the fourth day , and with Tufnell on the way to completing the most overs ever bowled by one man in a first-class innings in New Zealand , the Kiwi machine was forced to change down a gear or two . |
| 25 | She was sent away to a home for unmarried mothers run by middle-class women . |
| 26 | A detective constable was working away in a corner . |
| 27 | The numbness was inched away by a mixture of anger and sorrow . |