Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] away [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents were due to go away on holiday at the start of the following week . |
| 2 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 3 | Lacking only her native forest ( now probably half chewed away by acid rain ) , and the dorf ( whose last inhabitants ' bones still lie jumbled in a secret pit ) our Anya has found herself a little home from home . |
| 4 | The factors selected were mean OBS score at time of first assessment , whether the sufferer was singly or doubly incontinent at least once daily , whether he or she engaged in persistent wandering away from home , whether he or she lived alone , and whether he or she had no closely involved informal carer . |
| 5 | It also seemed to inspire a sort of motherly affection in others , so that I was more likely to get away with carelessness or naughtiness than were my more physically mature contemporaries . |
| 6 | I remembered how in England I had pitied them all tucked away in oblivion : Feathers , the first man of my course to go missing ; Johnny Soames whose aircraft I had watched skidding away from the formation on one of the early daylight raids over northern France . |
| 7 | The whole head equably smiles in contemplation of knowledge ; of madness of grace and sensibility ; of stupidity of sensuality ; of illusions and disillusions — all locked away as matter of perpetual meditation . |
| 8 | I do n't think er Chairman , this , this county council is , is competent to do away with hunting . |
| 9 | We can all walk away with conscience clear |
| 10 | Obviously a person who has spent all their life avoiding such situations will never have had the opportunity to learn about the plateau stage and the gradual fading away of anxiety . |
| 11 | They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent . |
| 12 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |
| 13 | In future Celeste will not be able to go away from home without a licence . |
| 14 | In future Celeste will not be able to go away from home without a licence . |
| 15 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 16 | In desperation then he ordered certain solid objects in the Residency to be carried out to arrest that dreadful bleeding away of earth . |
| 17 | ‘ I am fit , ’ he persisted , holding Llewelyn fast by the sleeve , for he was apt to flash away from armoury to store and stable to council chamber disconcertingly upon his universal errand of supervision . |
| 18 | As well as this Llandinam Bridge , built in 1846 , Penson gave Davies other work such as the cattle market in Oswestry ( 1850 ) and a number of bridges to replace those swept away during flooding . |
| 19 | I thought this was quite a plus actually , because we were able to get away with murder during the beginning , in some ways doing things that on paper looked very expensive but in reality balanced out over the year we were scheduled . ’ |
| 20 | Would they be able to get away in time ? |
| 21 | ‘ I ’ m not going to Thailand just to escape from the group , ’ Kate says , still unable to move away from guilt . |
| 22 | The lizard is then able to rush away to safety while the predator , momentarily confused by the suddenness of what has happened , concentrates all its efforts on the disembodied tail . |
| 23 | It was the sense of dread , the awful dropping away with fear of her stomach , that was worst . |
| 24 | ‘ It was pretty difficult to break away from Prince , ’ she says . |
| 25 | Both the exhibition and the Show reminded us forcibly that it 's difficult to get away from politics in China . |
| 26 | ‘ All this because you were so all-fired determined to get away from Dane , ’ she muttered savagely , peering through a snow-clogged windscreen . |
| 27 | Obviously something like a car could only be considered a bribe ; on the other hand a vacuum cleaner , say , may be too expensive to give away in bulk but could certainly be offered for comparative testing . |
| 28 | Those who were not dead marched away into captivity . |
| 29 | you know , part of me was thinking well just a minute you know this service is if blind people can offer describers , but on the other hand people are entitled to go away on holiday |
| 30 | In such a way are the clothes of the dead put away for disposal . |