Example sentences of "[to-vb] 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 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 3 | ‘ Pappy , I want to go away to school . |
| 4 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had something of a Huckleberry Finn spirit , wanting to run away to sea . |
| 7 | Designed to entice thousands of turn-of-the-century tourists to run away to sea , the P&O Poster Collection will be at London 's Chelsea Harbour , 16 Dec-12 Jan ( 071–839 8533 ) — the perfect escape to faraway places with strange-sounding names if you 're visiting the Boat Show , 1–12 January . |
| 8 | Until he was fifteen he had private tuition which concentrated on classics and law , but in August 1803 he was able , with much difficulty , to break away to sea , entering the Royal Navy in 1803 . |
| 9 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 10 | The lizard is then able to rush away to safety while the predator , momentarily confused by the suddenness of what has happened , concentrates all its efforts on the disembodied tail . |