Example sentences of "[vb past] away for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Service changed hands eight times and there were four lets in between until Soutter broke the deadlock with a tight drop that created an opening and a lovely cross-court forehand slice that zipped away for a winner . |
| 2 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 3 | He turned away for a few moments and I could see that he was upset by the news . |
| 4 | After that there was no way back for Foulds as Doherty raced away for a 5–2 win , sealing it with a 60 break in what proved to be the final frame . |
| 5 | He glanced away for a moment , then his piercing gaze met and held hers . |
| 6 | He glanced away for a moment , his gaze seeming to drift beyond the window to the loch and the granite peak of Ben Lomond beyond . |
| 7 | We walked a bit nearer , careful like , and then the mist rolled away for a minute or two and there she was . |
| 8 | She looked away for a moment . |
| 9 | Rory looked away for a second , towards the beach , where the long Atlantic rollers crashed against the broad expanse of gold . |
| 10 | Kenneth looked away for a moment , then cleared his throat . |
| 11 | Piper looked away for a moment . |
| 12 | He chewed away for a few moments and then nodded with pleasure . |
| 13 | He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time . |
| 14 | We sent away for a Plaque Attacker from an advert in your magazine . |
| 15 | I sent away for a video instruction tape over two months ago ; the cheque was cashed well over a month ago but as yet I have not received the tape . |
| 16 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 18 | Very few part-time farmers went away for a holiday so this should not be difficult . |
| 19 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 20 | ‘ We eventually fell madly in love and went away for a string of dirty weekends . ’ |
| 21 | All the general SVQ tutors , and the SVQ co-ordinator went away for a three-day residential to develop the programme . |
| 22 | Normally that should present no problem to the team batting second , but none of them could dominate the bowling and the low total seemed to spur England to some brilliant fielding ; when Botham got Gomes and Richards in successive overs , the game moved England 's way , and the rest of the wickets drifted away for a total of just 148 . |
| 23 | They stayed away for a few years , moving between the markets of the Sahel , exploiting differences in prices in different markets , until they had enough camels to go to Cairo . |
| 24 | Ottaviani stayed away for a fortnight . |
| 25 | When they split up , Tree stayed away for a year , but reemerged to send Bailey a telegram when he married Marie Helvin . |