Example sentences of "away [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we have an uninterrupted view of the prospect , and what a glorious prospect it is , stretching far away for many miles on every hand . |
| 2 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 3 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 4 | b ) Will doctors , particularly surgeons , be away for predictable periods of time ? |
| 5 | You go away for thirteen weeks on a course with the dog , you 're introduced to the dog you 're gon na work with , yeah ? |
| 6 | Just before Christmas I moved jobs , and in the middle of January I went away for three days on a course . |
| 7 | Then Guy told Leonora he was going away for three weeks to Wales , to take photographs for a travel book , and suggested she went with him . |
| 8 | Its meaning has begun to leak away through indiscriminate extensions beyond its original significance , extensions to cases which would normally be distinguished as cases of non-violence . |
| 9 | City finally broke away after 29 minutes through centre Mark Potter , and following a scrum on the line flanker Rob Milton drove over to cut the gap to 6–4 at halftime . |
| 10 | Dedicated to All Saints , the church is tucked away behind mighty trees on a high bank of the river . |
| 11 | In view , however , of what he said about student support , compared with what the citizens advice bureaux say about student support — the citizens advice bureaux deal with real students suffering real hardship in the real world , while the Prime Minister hides himself away behind locked gates in 10 |
| 12 | Denise McGrory and ‘ Did n't We Almost Have It All ’ walked away with overall laurels on the night . |
| 13 | There is , however , a very strong feeling in fashionable knitwear this year for double jacquard patterns Usually I try to find easy ways to achieve this look and if you do n't have a ribber and a colour changer you can get away with two layers of Fair Isle or single jacquard , neatly sewn together to make a beautiful fabric for this time of year . |
| 14 | He reckoned he had done well to get away with two cups of tea and forty minutes of reminiscence before an opening arose to thrust in a question . |
| 15 | If someone goes away with good memories of what they have seen and heard then they will come back and bring their family and friends . ’ |
| 16 | I have never banged away with fifteen strangers in a back street in Ashton before . |
| 17 | He turned away , apparently satisfied , then pushed the glasses back into his pocket , flashed the torch briefly down at the rough stones of the pier , and went away with long strides in the direction of the house . |
| 18 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 19 | And then these overall evaluations change too , so you have a long evolutionary process here , you see , the working out of human evaluations , and while you wo n't get you wo n't get total agreement that the you will erm some sort of co-ordination and the particularly I argue that while there 's an area sort of in the middle , as it were , where you can get away with all sorts of things , you see , there are cliffs . |
| 20 | Whereas Arthur Rank could argue in the 1940s that the diversity of production activity within the company eliminated the dangers of monopoly , Davis did away with alternative centres of initiative . |
| 21 | If we do away with personal rights over material wealth , there still remains prerogative in the field of sexual relationships … . |
| 22 | He could have got away with fourteen months with remission . ’ |
| 23 | In recent years most academic libraries have been forced to cut back on periodical provision , to prevent serials from running away with unreasonable proportions of their budgets for materials ( see pp. 135–8 ) . |
| 24 | I am never fond of watching people blast away with both barrels at their feet , but when climbing is engaged in such a destructive pastime , it becomes doubly worrying . |
| 25 | Woolworths store in Grange Road , Jarrow , was hit twice on Wednesday when raiders got away with large quantities of children 's clothes including the theft of about £7,000 worth of clothes by a group of about ten youths . |
| 26 | Gone are the days when concerned voices , from purblind Right or knee-jerk Left , could get away with glib diatribes about ‘ media brainwashing ’ . |
| 27 | It was the time when her mother took to the couch because she could n't stand the sight and sound of the hordes of women and children with their buckets , and the arranged fights among the urchins so that one or two of their gang could get away with some lumps of coal , which would make all the difference between having a fried meal or freezing both inside and out . |
| 28 | She went away with some men in brown uniforms and will not come back to her little boy . |
| 29 | Also , by binding Vitamin C to a phosphate mineral , very little is lost during the food 's preparation — which , says Steve , does away with skeletal deformities in young fish , a feature of vitamin deficiency . |
| 30 | This time the curled metal merely came away with jellied lumps of vitreous humour sticking to it . |