Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] away [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 2 | And to be turned away as well ! |
| 3 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |
| 4 | While refuge spaces were provided for 19 women and children , four had to be turned away because of lack of space . |
| 5 | But this was not , at first , a boom with roots , and many of these new operations were to be swept away when the arrival of sound led to an increase in the cost of production . |
| 6 | This clever idea allows the pit to be shut away when not in use , making it look attractive while keeping the sand clean at the same time . |
| 7 | The shrine and the whole house shook and the ground beneath it seemed to be shifting away as though in an earthquake . |
| 8 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 9 | It may be that tougher-looking delinquents are more liable to be put away than fragile looking ones . |
| 10 | If you asked him she ought to be put away for she was plainly off her trolley . |
| 11 | But some at least remain in the animals ' stomachs and guts long enough for them to be carried away when the sated diners depart . |
| 12 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |