Example sentences of "[verb] away to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissonant notes do not resolve , but leap away to a consonance in the same chord , as at . |
| 2 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 3 | Set three days aside in your diary ( within the next three months ) to go away to a hotel with your team and tackle the issue . |
| 4 | Then Jane goes away to a school called Lowood . |
| 5 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |
| 6 | The manual alerts the teacher to the kinds of ‘ errors ’ children are most likely to make and emphasises that in the ‘ correct ’ drawing ‘ the front of the road occupies the whole width of the picture , and the distant end of it vanishes away to a point far back on the horizon ’ . |
| 7 | Lorton strolled away to a shop which sold office equipment . |
| 8 | As we walked away to a coffee-shop in the Royal Mile , Meehan said , ‘ That 's the first court in my life I 've been turned away from . ’ |
| 9 | Kandinskaya stared hard at her and said , ‘ The first one was apparently plucked out of its route between Mars and Andronicus and whisked away to a place in the asteroid belt some seventy-nine degrees away from here . |
| 10 | ‘ You recollect the gossip that was rife at the time — that he had run away to a monastery ? ’ |
| 11 | In St Servatius this phenomenon has meant that large areas of the interior walls have been eaten away to a depth of more than a centimetre and the paint layers on the walls are beginning to peel off . |
| 12 | A few minutes later I was led away to a cell . |
| 13 | But all to no avail as , grumbling furiously under her breath , she found herself being led away to a changing-room . |
| 14 | Alternatively , you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis . |
| 15 | Mark 's voice had trailed away to a whisper . |
| 16 | They stood talking and Joanna soon drifted away to a group near by . |
| 17 | No it 's , I think it was taken away to a museum was n't it ? |
| 18 | At the tender age of six or seven , she was then involved in court action that saw the man go to prison — with Rosemary being taken away to a place of safety , a children 's home . |
| 19 | And in American communities , major works of literature can be banned from schools and libraries — or even , occasionally , burnt — for challenging traditional scriptural accounts , while a new current of fundamentalism can actually influence American politics through the support of millions eager to be raptured away to a heaven more or less interchangeable with Disneyland . |
| 20 | Having said that , he enjoyed the depth of conviction to be heard at a conventicle and slipped away to a service on the muirs above the village as often as he was able to do so . |
| 21 | LIVERPOOL manager Graeme Souness last night refused to discuss the goals that Mark Wright and David James gave away to a team of Third Division nobodies . |
| 22 | As you may know , FAMILY GO TOWN have the unenviable task of warming up for the Inspirals on the current tour and in an effort to be matey , after the Nottingham gig , Graham started chatting away to a bunch of people he took to be the support group . |
| 23 | They had been much on Rose Hilaire 's mind because the buyer from one store , Morgan 's of Leeds , had shown signs of wanting to move away to a manufacturer offering lower costs . |
| 24 | She was sent away to a home for unmarried mothers run by middle-class women . |
| 25 | ‘ If you keep asking for things you 'll be too expensive to keep — we 'll all just starve to death or you 'll have to be sent away to a Home where they 'll lock you up . |
| 26 | The show was over , the audience had drifted away to a reception room where they would be further wooed with a glass of champagne and a selection of canapes and nibbles and Paula , dressed now in one of her own suits , smart black barathea , had emerged from the dressing rooms to meet the waiting Sally and Edward . |