Example sentences of "[verb] away with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I bet he 's come away with a quarter of a million ! |
| 2 | While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology . |
| 3 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Belgium have won all their four games so far and we need to come away with a share of the spoils . ’ |
| 5 | It was a disappointing display and we were fortunate to come away with a point . |
| 6 | He admitted last night : ‘ We will do well to come away with a point this time . |
| 7 | She broke off as if afraid of being overheard and moved away with a nod and a wave . |
| 8 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's too many for us to frighten away with a show of force . ’ |
| 10 | BLUEBIRD : The thief got away with a nest-egg |
| 11 | Raiders got away with a quantity of drugs , including adrenaline hydrochloride , hydrocortisone and cocaine between 1pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday . |
| 12 | A BRITISH villain who got away with a £292 million haul in the world 's biggest mugging was murdered by a Mafia hitman . |
| 13 | Those who got away with a Heimatschuss ( a ’ blighty wound ‘ ) say they were lucky . ’ |
| 14 | SOCCER player Paul Pullen got away with a foul … his identical twin was sent off instead . |
| 15 | Fellow countryman Luis Mendoza got away with a draw — but in the return Palacio was halted in the third round . |
| 16 | It seems , Freddie as he 's been named , stowed away with a consignment of bananas from the Windward Islands . |
| 17 | A puppy , even if he were , so to speak , given away with a pound of tea , must cost a certain amount to maintain . |
| 18 | This was all fantasy , of course , for one or two people had come , Evans or Owens from Hadleigh , the coypu man , a meter reader , the man who wanted to do the garden and whom he had turned away with a lie . |
| 19 | The boy gave an amused flick of his head , swung round unhurriedly — yet not too slowly , either — and sauntered away with a laugh , his admirers tittering after him . |
| 20 | The recruitment poster , designed by Riley Advertising , also came away with a certificate in the full colour press ad category . |
| 21 | Gingerly she felt her mouth with her fingertips ; they came away with a splattering of blood where she had bitten her own lip . |
| 22 | There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player . |
| 23 | They looked a class act and for once came away with a result to match . |
| 24 | They looked a class act and for once came away with a result to match . |
| 25 | Glorious because they came away with a victory over Rosslyn Park … but no thanks to the quagmire at the Kingsholm ground . |
| 26 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 27 | And I think this done away with a lot of entries and keeping people away from meetings . |
| 28 | And Abbey Fields , went round , we went round Abbey Fields and then came back onto the Clacton Road higher up , Colchester was n't the same , they 've done away with a lot of the high walls they had round |
| 29 | That would explain why his victims all stayed in bed as he blasted away with a handgun in the luxury , ranch-style home near San Diego , California . |
| 30 | A charcuterie in Aurillac or Vic-sur-Cère or some other small but locally important town will possibly provide a pâté the like of which you never tasted before , or a locally cured ham , a few slices of which you will buy and carry away with a salad , a kilo of peaches , a bottle of Monbazillac and a baton of bread , and somewhere on a hillside amid the mile upon mile of golden broom or close to a splashing waterfall you will have , just for once , the ideal picnic . |