Example sentences of "[to-vb] away [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to the parties given in his honour , from which Eliot would contrive to slip away after a token attendance , these functions , never too large , were the kind he most enjoyed . |
| 2 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 3 | Fun 's the last thing I feel like ! ’ she replied swiftly , trying to pull away from the deceptive strength of his hold . |
| 4 | Half a crown And you used to come away with a big piece of flat brisket and if he 's got any sausage left , or bits a of pork pies , he used to shove a bit of that in . |
| 5 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
| 6 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
| 7 | Yesterday Acting Detective Inspector Colin Gibson , of Darlington CID , said the teenager suffered a slight cut to his face after trying to struggle away from the two . |
| 8 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 9 | Caspar was slowing down , his eyes on a dip towards their left , where the road seemed to fall away into a natural valley . |
| 10 | At last they had her suitcases strapped up and were ready to drive away from the little haven they had shared . |
| 11 | Indeed , after this fluid has begun to flow away as a copious diarrhoea the patient often feels so little indisposed that he can not persuade himself that anything serious is the matter . |
| 12 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 13 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 14 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 15 | It could be that the couple simply decided to go away for a few days , but those who know Mrs Allsopp say it 's unlikely she would have left without telling anyone . |
| 16 | And when he 'd finished and been weighed again and she 'd changed his diaper and put it in the special container to go away for the chemical analysis — And a nasty old job that must be to do ! |
| 17 | ‘ Will we have to go away from the white house , and the railway and everything ? ’ |
| 18 | With demands for devolution resurfacing , this problem is unlikely to go away in the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 20 | In 1938 the CIO was to split away from the old-established American Federation of Labor , for whom it was too militant and too political in its aims . |
| 21 | I did not really know what to expect away from the National Health Service and my mum , and so , armed with a small library of books and the good wishes of a Jamaican midwife at Homerton hospital , I just hoped for the best . |
| 22 | Old Fishfinger is a regular visitor to the PFK offices , from which he occasionally manages to sneak away with a few reader 's queries . |
| 23 | We may even wish to veer away from the main subject to investigate an interesting sidepath . |
| 24 | But while many potential owners enjoy visiting the Shelters , it is not that easy to walk away with a new pet . |
| 25 | The watching Masai begin to walk away after a long , contemplative moment . |
| 26 | And a fair bit left over to put away for a rainy day , I daresay . ’ |
| 27 | I think what you say is quite true Chairman , but I still I think the bottom line to it is , at the end of the day , to do away with a strategic authority , such as the County Council , in my opinion , if you look at what 's happened in the metropolitan areas , er in the country , Tyneside , Manchester , the West Midlands , areas like that , West Yorkshire , South Yorkshire , and er London itself , the er the doing away with a strategic authority . |
| 28 | They wo n't do away with them , no but cos they , they 're trying to do away with the National Dock Labour Board and come back to the old system . |
| 29 | You may say that we , we 'd like to do away with the incoming calls but , to a degree , it encouraging them , so what else does it show Jack , or is that the two main points ? |
| 30 | Fenner Brockway 's conception of the " Workers Front " , limited to " working class parties " , was adopted at the ILP Conference at Easter 1937 , and the ILP began to draw away from the other participants in the Unity Campaign . |