Example sentences of "[vb pp] away [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 2 | In any case , it 's tucked away in the second half of the book , after Offred 's prison-like existence has been thoroughly , horribly established . |
| 3 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 4 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 5 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 6 | But this one wo n't be around for hundreds of years … in fact , it 'll probably be washed away with the first rainstorm . |
| 7 | ‘ I know it 's a cliche , ’ she said , standing with David 's hand in the crook of her arm , ‘ but it really does look as though it were floating , as though it might be washed away by the next tide . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What is important now is to collect as much information as possible before the sites retreat still further — and before any are washed away in the next big storm . ’ |
| 9 | I have only slipped away into the next room . |
| 10 | Weaver 's body was photographed , and taken away in the second ambulance to arrive on the scene . |
| 11 | There are four samey levels to battle through , and as soon as you 've waded your way through the current one you 're whipped away to the next . |
| 12 | Gloucester after Saturday 's match at Kingsholm were left feeling just as impotent and just as confounded after Bath had stormed away in the last five minutes of extra time to win this semi-final . |
| 13 | ‘ Virtually all the profits earned since the very first flight of the Wright Brothers in 1903 have faded away in the last three years , ’ Pieter Bouw , chairman of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines , told a meeting of airline caterers . |
| 14 | His scams and cons , however , are not always abortive and the profit he makes is not always snatched away at the last minute . |
| 15 | The announcement will end months of acrimony after it appeared that a guarantee to base the centre in the city would be snatched away at the 11th hour . |