Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] a couple of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 2 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 3 | She 's going away in a couple of weeks with the Brownies |
| 4 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 5 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 6 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | One woman drifted away with a couple of the children as if she 'd heard it all before . |
| 8 | Yet , although the leaders of both sides of industry worked hard to achieve a common agreement on policies to present to the government the talks , and the influence they exerted , began to wither away after a couple of years , and did not survive into the 1930s . |
| 9 | What we both needed was to get away for a couple of days , to go somewhere peaceful , relaxing and free of any association with the past , where we could work out where we stood . |