Example sentences of "away in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Faial there is a new bridge over the Ribeira Seca as the old one was washed away in a violent storm a few years ago . |
| 2 | The muse 's intervention occurs after Astrophil appears to be carried away in a violent frenzy , unable to find a fit language to achieve his ends . |
| 3 | Police at Ames , Iowa , are looking for a one-legged burglar who stole a three-legged Labrador dog from an electrical contracting business and got away in a stolen pick-up truck . |
| 4 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
| 5 | Our dwelling place was clean and very isolated ; for we were tucked away in a deep hollow , and all around the tumbling sand dunes encompassed us about . |
| 6 | ‘ For some reason rooms were discounted from low-season rate to the point where we were virtually giving them away in a definite shoulder season . |
| 7 | The ball soared away in a graceful arc . |
| 8 | ‘ I jettisoned the wood , climbed down the path and there , neatly stashed away in a narrow inlet between the rocks , was my castaway , complete with gash on temple , soaked through , ice-cold to the touch and so deeply unconscious I thought at first you were dead . ’ |
| 9 | But whatever the origins the fairy folk warning has never been left to chance and the ‘ Luck ’ still exists ; it is either locked away in a strong room on the premises or according to some accounts stored safely in the custody of the Bank of England . |
| 10 | After an hour or so of this the group swam slowly and steadily away in a north-easterly direction along the Boston deeps , and they were watched following this course until the light failed . |
| 11 | The old part of the town lay half a mile away in a shallow bowl , through which meandered the river that gave the town its name . |
| 12 | The rest of the animals had been roughed off and turned away in a distant paddock . |
| 13 | This adventurous and stylish design uses classical columns as supports with hooped timber arches to provide a real felling of movement as it sweeps away in a gentle curve . |
| 14 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 15 | According to Sampson , many other features of transformational grammar can be explained away in a similar fashion once one adopts this evolutionary perspective . |
| 16 | The remnants of feudalism , the Tsar , and the old landowning nobility , must first be swept away in a bourgeois revolution which would inaugurate the full flowering of capitalism . |
| 17 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 18 | It would be a long while before he turned into one of the Elders , hiding away in a living death , nurturing their effete Dreams , too fastidious to get involved with the tumult of humanity . |
| 19 | They ran away in a great hurry . |
| 20 | It was put away in a dark basement because it was too horrible . |
| 21 | At that time , I could have got that girl a bed straight away in a decent place — I am not talking about a mattress on a floor . |
| 22 | I brought it for you and it 's your duty to see it put away in a decent fashion . ’ |
| 23 | And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ? |
| 24 | One of them said that Andrus normally took his money away in a small bag , one he could conceal under his gown , it 's safer that way . |
| 25 | A tree that goes in a chipper as a 7ft , 20lb pine comes out as a pile of fragrant mulch that can be carried away in a small box to be used in parks or gardens . |
| 26 | Tucked away in a small street off London 's Spitalfields Market is a house that is not all it would seem from the outside . |
| 27 | What else would you be doing , tucked away in a moonlit conservatory with a beautiful woman ? ’ |
| 28 | Mr Larkin said : ‘ Jean 's was a young , innocent life taken away in a horrible way . |
| 29 | At the back , the blouse cut away in a big yawn down to the wide plastic-belted top of her mini-skirt . |
| 30 | A 3-year-old should be able to put toys away in a big box but can not sort out clothes for a cupboard . |