Example sentences of "[verb] away to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 2 | In next field keep well to left of trees ahead by bearing quarter left ( soon fence away to right comes into view ) . |
| 3 | The ball cannoned away to safety for Milton . |
| 4 | After leaving school , most of his friends moved away to university . |
| 5 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 6 | Many of these machines were indistinguishable in appearance from human beings , but not all — one of his stories described a race of intelligent motor-cars which , once parked for the night , would zoom away to sex orgies . |
| 7 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 8 | ‘ Pappy , I want to go away to school . |
| 9 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |
| 10 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 11 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 12 | There is widespread disbelief among Germany 's camp followers , then , that tonight 's match may not be a complete sell-out at Ibrox in spite of thousands of tickets having been given away to youth organisations . |
| 13 | They climbed into their chauffeured car and were whisked away to heaven knew where , and I thought frustratedly about time and the little of it there was left in Winnipeg . |
| 14 | We cut away to business with Leonard . |
| 15 | The following day 's hill race once again developed into a Swanson/Dugdale battle , with Swanson finally pulling away to victory as they completed the race on the stadium track . |
| 16 | Small wonder , then , that A. J. P. Taylor 's advice was to ‘ run away to sea rather than go to a secondary modern ’ . |
| 17 | Well , ’ I said , ‘ we could run away to sea and be sailors . |
| 18 | ’ Growing up is not just the pain of going away to school ; it is also the acceptance of the values of the adult world . |
| 19 | There are some boys and girls going away to school , their fathers and mothers filling up the moments of waiting with many injunctions in order to shut out their anxieties which their children must not see . |
| 20 | I thought that by going away to school I would be leaving nothing behind . |
| 21 | He 's scared stiff of going away to school and all this ‘ Irish ’ nonsense is just an excuse to get out of it . |
| 22 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 23 | This upward jerk can be very painful and is sometimes enough to dishearten the attacker and allow the hedgehog to scuttle away to safety without having to resort to the passive rolling-up defence . |
| 24 | Drive away to Freedom ! |
| 25 | Being called away to prayer she clutched the book to her bosom and having forbidden Lambarde to fall upon his knees before her , concluded , " Farewell good and honest Lambarde " . |
| 26 | This was Adieu , which John described as ‘ a sadly romantic story of a nymph , whose lover is called away to war ’ . |
| 27 | Even if part of the tail is lost , the victim survives and swims away to safety . |
| 28 | I tried to turn in behind him but found that I was going to overshoot and pulled away to starboard . |
| 29 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 30 | They were driven away to death row in Pretoria 's central prison . |