Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 2 | When war broke out in 1914 , Harrison was sent to France to join the British Expeditionary Force and regarded this as a heaven-sent opportunity to move away from the subject of the venereal diseases . |
| 3 | I watched water the colour of the Thames at low tide drain away while I dried myself , and felt the horror of last night drain away with it . |
| 4 | It seems that it was a hasty decision to take away the armoured car , which had become inseparable from the city 's history . |
| 5 | The group of gentlemen who prepared the list and signed the covering letter to Panmure , however , emphasised that unless Panmure wrote the letters in favour of James Milne which they had requested , then their friend would withdraw ‘ & let your declared oposers run away with what they could not , were you either present or your intrest heartily interposed ’ . |
| 6 | But it would be wishful thinking to explain away all , or even most , of the increase as an artefact of recording changes . |
| 7 | But as this phase of radical Right optimism died away from 1953 , it was replaced in the hard-core by professed adherence to the Nazi past and outright glorification of Hitler . |
| 8 | He made a half-hearted attempt to brush away my hand . |
| 9 | ‘ So , yes , I would be prepared to resist any kind of armed attempt to take away the liberty which I have to determine my own way in the future . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The swirling wind took away from us what we are best at — playing neat football — but we still showed what we could do . ’ |
| 11 | The result was a new symbol of aristocratic authority , Petworth House , whose very long and quite low facade looked away from Petworth across the tightly packed rural landscape to the Downs . |
| 12 | A short stroll away , Chioggia , known as ‘ Little Venice ’ unfolds and Venice is a 45 minute drive or pleasant boat ride away . |
| 13 | As the cruel words died away , there came the sound of a door slamming , followed by Esther 's tinkling laughter and the spiteful jibe : ‘ I ca n't abide you near me . |
| 14 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 15 | The French ambassador 's residence was looted and four French personnel taken away , of whom only one , military attaché Edouard Crespin , was later released . |
| 16 | Fenway fans have simply grown resigned to seeing fine teams commit one horrendous play to throw away a crucial championship game as good as won . |
| 17 | In fact there are two different meanings hidden away in this phrase : the state can be relatively autonomous of the capitalist class , which is appropriate for an organizational model of the state ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 18 | Perhaps Mr. Cleaver has forgotten that the British authorities turned away from Palestine ships laden with hopeless would-be immigrants who were forcibly , returned to Europe and the death camps . |
| 19 | I can feel behind my head the haze of reddish hair going away in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | I believe he was a real bachelor with a ravishing mistress tucked away . |
| 21 | Over the centuries the title of Count has passed from family to family as old dynasties withered away , intermarried or perished in battle . |
| 22 | His brown eyes slid away from Loretta 's . |
| 23 | She fawned over Horatia as if the latter were of the blood royal , her say brown eyes sliding away from his whenever he looked at her . |
| 24 | Ian 's voice was slightly defiant , and he dropped his head and with a careful casualness flicked away some nonexistent dust from his high-buttoned silver jacket . |
| 25 | less reliable supporters give away one or more of these to candidates of other parties who are better known to them . |
| 26 | A moment later the big brown car pulled away from the kerb . |
| 27 | When the renegade Sister Ruth ( Kathleen Byron ) , a seething mass of frustrated sexuality and jealously , attempts to push Sister Clodagh ( Deborah Kerr ) over the edge of the cliff and instead falls herself , we are spared the usual phony diminishing figure dropping away . |
| 28 | We reached a rocky edge from which a steep side fell away . |
| 29 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
| 30 | Minutes passed till he heard the last racing footsteps fade away , then he cautiously eased the door open and looked round its edge . |