Example sentences of "[verb] away in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he cited two papers , co-authored by Derek Bryce-Smith , professor of organic chemistry at the University of Reading , as being the result of ‘ individual scientists who have got rather carried away in a flush of enthusiasm . ’ |
| 2 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 3 | Maxol 's Homewarm 600 heat generator , with a maximum output of 6kW , can be hidden away in a kitchen cupboard . |
| 4 | Father keeps them hidden away in a room off his library . ’ |
| 5 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 6 | I point it out because it is hidden away in a lot of business about freedom of information and other issues about which he is so keen . |
| 7 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 8 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 9 | The blueness goes away in a day or two . |
| 10 | His quiet rage about the papers , and the idiots who paid good money for them , grew more intense as he began to grind away in a job as a research assistant at the Financial Times . |
| 11 | The adamantium floor down there was inscribed with a maze of tiny coloured channels that bootsteps would never be able to wear away in a pattern suggestive of a cosmic map — and along all of those channels were spaced little indentations the depth of a Fist 's thumbprint , each recess named with a rune . |
| 12 | He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school . |
| 13 | He describes a skylark 's nest which he found tucked away in a hoof print : ‘ Behind a clod/ how snug the nest/ is in a horse 's footing fixed/ of twitch and stubbles roughly dressed/ with roots and horsehair intermixed . ’ |
| 14 | Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable ! |
| 15 | Foldaway slippers for the flight are tucked away in a holdall with disposable nappies and sick tablets . |
| 16 | Got some at home apparently tucked away in a piggy bank or something . |
| 17 | Although it was amongst the women 's glossies as promised , it was still tucked away in a corner with only its spine showing . |
| 18 | Tucked away in a corner of the rear panel is a small stick-on label saying , Made in Taiwan . |
| 19 | He was tucked away in a corner , the only man on his own , a solitary candle illuminating his face as he pored over the paper on which he was writing . |
| 20 | And by the same token that clever little bistro Piers and Amanda found tucked away in a cellar behind Herne Hill tube station was definitely out . |
| 21 | Karelius , about to agree , suddenly turned away in a fit of coughing . |
| 22 | We soon roared away in a cloud of dust , shoulder to ribcage with the largest man I have ever seen in my life . |
| 23 | AN ELDERLY woman dozed off on her sofa — and was almost whisked away in a coffin . |
| 24 | Twenty-five years ago , a building contract was regarded by surveyors , clients and contractors alike as something to be signed , put away in a filing cabinet and brought out only in the unlikely event of a dispute . |
| 25 | ‘ It must be awful being old and put away in a home because no one will have you at home and look after you . ’ |
| 26 | He dreaded her reaction : seeing her wriggle and flick her tail and swim away in a sea of lies — or seeing her pop like a burst balloon . |
| 27 | She 's going away in a couple of weeks with the Brownies |
| 28 | Goodey making a change for the benefit of the scheme members paying into a scheme , rather than employers going away in a contribution holiday . |
| 29 | But a tantalising fragment of a thirteenth Ransome novel envisages the three Death and Glory boys stowing away in a cruiser which is being sent by road to the Lake in the North . |
| 30 | A mill manufacturing that material was established nearby on the banks of the Church Beck but was washed away in a flood . |