Example sentences of "away [prep] [art] [noun pl] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In freedom , he managed to hide away in the wilds and educate himself . |
| 2 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 3 | As soon as a female begins to swell up and start coming into season she should be taken away from the males and kept separately . |
| 4 | A further feature of this pattern can be distinguished at Braintree , where the plots have been shown to extend up to 105 m ( 343 ft ) away from the frontages and appear therefore to represent smallholdings associated with the various buildings comparable dimensions have also been noted at Great Dunmow . |
| 5 | A man who was very friendly with another , or his senior kinsmen , could adopt a more expository technique : he would sit facing him and take his left hand ; as he made his points he would take his friend 's little finger , move it away from the others and hold it : ‘ first … ‘ then the next finger : ‘ second … ‘ ; until he had moved the digits all to one side , like beads on an abacus . |
| 6 | The decision to ‘ choose ’ , or not to ‘ choose ’ will be taken away from the parents and left to an ad-hoc committee of neighbours . |
| 7 | We make some suggestions in the resorts section of the magazine from writers who have kept away from the pistes and enjoyed it . |
| 8 | As I relaxed I took a look around to see what was going down , just as we pulled away from the lights and turned left . |
| 9 | Only for brief moments did the studio venture away from the formulae and try out different ideas , even when , as with The Damned , the studio cut the film in defiance of its director 's wishes . |
| 10 | Central to this was a process of taking control of the workplace away from the operatives and placing it in the hands of management by providing the latter with the technical information that had formerly been monopolized by the former . |
| 11 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 12 | Besides — ’ again she pried her eyes away from the eyeglasses and looked at her cousin ‘ — in just a few minutes you are going to be transformed into a femme fatale . |
| 13 | yet his apparent unconcern was belied when he turned away from the children and cupped his hands tightly together behind him . |
| 14 | One person sets off across the pool facing away from the children and says ‘ What 's the time Mr Shark ’ ? |
| 15 | They very swiftly get down to basics , ask pertinent questions , build up a rapport , and do so away from the rest of the party , away from the reporters and press cameras . |
| 16 | I stumbled away from the caravans and sat down by the hedge to wait for Tumbleweed . |
| 17 | I slipped away before the encores and hung around in the courtyard outside the Sheldonian until the Kraemers emerged . |
| 18 | I drifted away down the steps and collected my gear . |
| 19 | ‘ The idea was n't greeted with much enthusiasm at first , ’ he says , ‘ But we continued plugging away at the distillers and mounted a back-selling campaign to the airline industry , pointing out what a boon light-weight ‘ Melinar ’ containers would be to them for their in-flight miniatures and duty-free supplies . |
| 20 | We tried to write letters to you — but they were taken away by the cai and burned . |
| 21 | How long before she gets eaten away by the meths and dissolves into dust blown by the wind ? |