Example sentences of "[vb pp] away [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I bet he 's come away with a quarter of a million ! |
| 2 | While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology . |
| 3 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 5 | Those unfortunate enough to be carried away after a crackdown are uncertain whether they will return alive . |
| 6 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |
| 7 | Non-resonant absorption of a photon , in which both surplus energy and surplus linear momentum are carried away by a photon of lower energy , is a much less favorable process . |
| 8 | The policeman 's dog ( breed unidentified in Flaubert 's version ) was n't carried away by a torrent ; it just drowned in deep water . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Maxol 's Homewarm 600 heat generator , with a maximum output of 6kW , can be hidden away in a kitchen cupboard . |
| 11 | Father keeps them hidden away in a room off his library . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If the form book is followed , his semi-final opponent will be Parrott whose season , after wins in Dubai and the United Kingdom Open , has fallen away under a welter of off-the-table commitments . |
| 16 | A puppy , even if he were , so to speak , given away with a pound of tea , must cost a certain amount to maintain . |
| 17 | Other products were taken from the stall and given away to a Middlesbrough stall . |
| 18 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 19 | This is usually tucked away under a fold of skin but it can be quickly erected and used as a weapon . |
| 20 | And for this price , what else can you get that combines some of the qualities of three axis aircraft , 17:1 glider and microlight in one finished , handsome package that can be tucked away into a container in the drive ? |
| 21 | The stage is tucked away like a box in the wall . |
| 22 | He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable ! |
| 25 | Foldaway slippers for the flight are tucked away in a holdall with disposable nappies and sick tablets . |
| 26 | Got some at home apparently tucked away in a piggy bank or something . |
| 27 | Although it was amongst the women 's glossies as promised , it was still tucked away in a corner with only its spine showing . |
| 28 | Tucked away in a corner of the rear panel is a small stick-on label saying , Made in Taiwan . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |