Example sentences of "[verb] away to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 2 | Jump into a cold swimming-pool , for example , and who can blame your frozen phallus from shrinking away to a delightfully compact inch or so . |
| 3 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |
| 4 | Wearing a chic black costume and white fur wrap , she is seen waving to him as he departs for the colony before walking away to a smart car beside which stands a chauffeur . |
| 5 | I was hustled away to a cold , stone-flagged cell beneath the Guildhall which I shared with two of the biggest rats I have ever clapped eyes on . |
| 6 | Dissonant notes do not resolve , but leap away to a consonance in the same chord , as at . |
| 7 | Ben got away to a really fast start and there was no heading him . |
| 8 | Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds . |
| 9 | Mac got away to a quite blistering start . |
| 10 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 11 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 12 | Set three days aside in your diary ( within the next three months ) to go away to a hotel with your team and tackle the issue . |
| 13 | Then Jane goes away to a school called Lowood . |
| 14 | Other products were taken from the stall and given away to a Middlesbrough stall . |
| 15 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |
| 16 | The manual alerts the teacher to the kinds of ‘ errors ’ children are most likely to make and emphasises that in the ‘ correct ’ drawing ‘ the front of the road occupies the whole width of the picture , and the distant end of it vanishes away to a point far back on the horizon ’ . |
| 17 | Lorton strolled away to a shop which sold office equipment . |
| 18 | Cash is paid in , drawn out or paid away to a third party by means of cheques . |
| 19 | The detonation faded away to a muted roar . |
| 20 | Most of us would probably panic , think catastrophic thoughts , breathe rapidly , run away to a safe place , call out the doctor , and make a will . |
| 21 | England raced away to a 6–0 lead in the first 15 minutes , and only good saves by goalkeeper Karen Owen throughout the match averted disaster for Wales . |
| 22 | I shall do my very best for him and , if anything you say is true , getting away to a different atmosphere with other boys will be the answer . |
| 23 | As we walked away to a coffee-shop in the Royal Mile , Meehan said , ‘ That 's the first court in my life I 've been turned away from . ’ |
| 24 | Kandinskaya stared hard at her and said , ‘ The first one was apparently plucked out of its route between Mars and Andronicus and whisked away to a place in the asteroid belt some seventy-nine degrees away from here . |
| 25 | Their house was not searched at the time of the dawn raid ; they were not driven away to a police station for questioning . |
| 26 | Although the Australians , who had a magnificent second half , only pulled away to a resounding victory in the last ten minutes , the harsh truth is that the Boks never looked like scoring . |
| 27 | Late on Saturday night , they were smuggled away to a safe area of the field and one of the teams was driven home to London . |
| 28 | And when they turned homeward , to tell their grandfather what they had seen and heard , the king of the vookodlaks scurried away to a muddy , murky , bushy part of the wood where he lived with all his tribe of ugly , dark , hairy , spiteful , brawling goblins . |
| 29 | Now 30 per cent of its junior management are women , although that figure falls away to a paltry 1 per cent at the highest levels . |
| 30 | ‘ You recollect the gossip that was rife at the time — that he had run away to a monastery ? ’ |