Example sentences of "[verb] away [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |
| 2 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 3 | Wiping away the first drop , which might be contaminated by perspiration , she waited until a second drop formed , then pressed her finger on to the chemically treated reagent strip . |
| 4 | ‘ We wo n't be in a hurry to get away the next time , will we ? |
| 5 | Edith , the parlourmaid , cleared away the first course . |
| 6 | The stage-curtains folded away the first half of the show to the accompaniment of enthusiastic applause . |
| 7 | Open the file , throw away the first line ( LIST " nnn " ) , read the line to be edited and close the file . |