Example sentences of "[verb] away to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ball cannoned away to safety for Milton . |
| 2 | We cut away to business with Leonard . |
| 3 | This upward jerk can be very painful and is sometimes enough to dishearten the attacker and allow the hedgehog to scuttle away to safety without having to resort to the passive rolling-up defence . |
| 4 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 5 | Jane found solace in the humour and support of the local people : Davyd , Meryvn , the clever Henry , aged sixty-eight but very spry , who had run away to sea at fifteen , and did everything so well and systematically — shipshape , in fact . |
| 6 | A copy of the booklet has been sent to Dave Hewis , and he 's gone away to pore over the Definitive Map for his area — we 'll let you know how he gets on . |
| 7 | The uncles and aunts presumably knew but Stephen himself had n't heard a word of him since he went away to college in London when he was eighteen . |
| 8 | He ran away to sea at fifteen and made a name for himself as a good , but sadistic , fist fighter . |
| 9 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 10 | There is seldom enough winter keep for the whole of the breeding stock , and ewe lambs are often sent away to winter in less rugged conditions . |
| 11 | He was sent away to school in Nykoøbing Mors , living with grandparents for seven years . |