Example sentences of "[vb pp] away for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 2 | John Hendrie burst through in the closing minutes , but his strong shot was pushed away for a corner by Bob Bolder . |
| 3 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 4 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 5 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 6 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 7 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 8 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 9 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 10 | ‘ Gone away for a time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He 's gone away for a while . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
| 13 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 14 | It was sent to Alison 's brother , Mark , and implied that she and their father had gone away for a break as both were suffering from depression . |
| 15 | Going back to your earlier point , the , the press do need to have a contact , and it 's very important that the contact is contactable and that , that they have n't gone away for a holiday during the two weeks in which the the thing is an issue . |
| 16 | After long-drawn-out bickering , the boy was taken away for a medical examination . |
| 17 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 18 | The body was taken away for a post mortem which revealed pressure marks on her neck , she had apparently been throttled . |
| 19 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |