Example sentences of "[vb past] away to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ben got away to a really fast start and there was no heading him . |
| 3 | Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds . |
| 4 | Mac got away to a quite blistering start . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lorton strolled away to a shop which sold office equipment . |
| 9 | Cash is paid in , drawn out or paid away to a third party by means of cheques . |
| 10 | The detonation faded away to a muted roar . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On one side of the ancient north-south coastal highway linking Saigon and Hanoi steep cliffs fell away to a dazzling beach of white sand fringed with coconut palms , and on the mirror-flat surface of the South China Sea far below , bat-winged Chinese junks floated at rest like toys on a turquoise pond . |
| 16 | Alternatively , you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis . |
| 17 | They stood talking and Joanna soon drifted away to a group near by . |
| 18 | The screech died away to a strangulated hissing as though the victim had clamped his lower lip with his teeth , biting with all the force of a steel beast-trap . |
| 19 | Having said that , he enjoyed the depth of conviction to be heard at a conventicle and slipped away to a service on the muirs above the village as often as he was able to do so . |
| 20 | LIVERPOOL manager Graeme Souness last night refused to discuss the goals that Mark Wright and David James gave away to a team of Third Division nobodies . |
| 21 | Ahead a ragged coastline stretched away to a long , low headland which jutted out into the sea , its level surface broken by the jagged stumps of two mine stacks . |