Example sentences of "away [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he drank and gambled away the lot , and it closed . |
| 2 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 3 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
| 4 | That 's why he 's away a lot , meeting people , fixing things up . |
| 5 | Yes indeed , I mean many argue that in fact a law was n't required , and that the common law , as it 's developed and grown and , for example , in the Quinlan case , says that the withdrawal of treatment , the withholding of consent to treatment , is entirely lawful ; and some might argue that , by giving a law like this , which is rather narrowly drawn , you 've taken away a lot ; in other words , a doctor will feel , this I can do , but the other I ca n't do . |
| 6 | Because in my last five years before [ becoming Prime Minister ] I had been Foreign Secretary [ and ] , therefore , away a lot . |
| 7 | BOC has chosen to take away a lot of the available functionality and choices available within FCRS to provide local operators with a completely menu-driven system for quick and simple data input . |
| 8 | But it will render precise almost every judgment on run-outs , and that alone would clear away a lot of dirt . |
| 9 | He was in the Navy and away a lot of the time . |
| 10 | ‘ The point is this , Bob , ’ said Mounce , leaning across the bar towards him and swilling the whisky round in his glass , ‘ I 'm away a lot , as you know . |
| 11 | Euston , St Pancras , the Gare St Lazare ? ) , or personality disorder , or fooling around , bit on the side , well she 's away a lot visiting her sister . |
| 12 | This means we could take away a lot of your rights and make many decisions about your child without you being involved . |
| 13 | He 'd cleared away a lot of last autumn 's leaves . |
| 14 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 15 | Our craft members are in danger of being poached by the A W E U. An amalgamation may not be some people 's ideal , but it will take away a lot of the friction between the two unions . |
| 16 | She did go away a lot but normally told somebody first so it was odd . |
| 17 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 18 | He went away a lot , with his work , but he 's been back with us for the last year or so , off and on . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , he 's away a lot . |
| 20 | But he was away a lot , and then it would be up to Janice . |
| 21 | She knew that , without meaning to , she had given away a lot of her life and thought , and wished she had not . |
| 22 | She had n't last time I , cos we were talking about er when I say talking I do n't mean nastily but the last time I saw Janet I asked after Wendy and she said she was still working and enjoying her job and the children were growing up and she did n't mention any other children so cos her husband works away a lot of the year does n't he ? |
| 23 | which she , I mean you , you 're throwing away a lot of plants that you might decide to keep |