Example sentences of "away [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some people told me I should have told the selectors to shove it and play for my club instead , but I thought if I kept quiet and plugged away I would get my chance — but I did n't think it would come this season , ’ Andrew said . |
| 2 | Rain and cold weather would be sent away I would order it to be a hot sunny day . |
| 3 | If you do n't put that mike away I 'll give you such a big slap |
| 4 | ‘ The day you give something away I 'll take a vow of chastity . |
| 5 | ‘ Everything here will be available to Mr Riddle 's lawyer and if I have to take anything away I shall give you a receipt . ’ |
| 6 | If you do stay away I can tell you the trainer will know where you can get a deal like that . |
| 7 | Cos our John used to come in and she goes you know said you 'll have to excuse me , once they go away I can relax . |
| 8 | As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground . |
| 9 | Even from fifty yards away I could see her pained expression . |
| 10 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 11 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 12 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 13 | Far , far away I could hear the slow , grinding sounds of traffic — but muffled , as if I were wearing earplugs . |
| 14 | And what is more , she decided , in order to go away I must have suitable new clothes . |
| 15 | an' if somefink flew away I 'd fall down . |
| 16 | You suggested that while you were away I should continue with my diary and record anything I would wish to talk to you about . |
| 17 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 18 | As the date of the audit is not far away I should appreciate an early reply . |
| 19 | If it was a girl , she would throw the " " " hole thing away , put on her hat and away she would go to get other work . |
| 20 | Often she was afraid that when she sent Fenna away she would become like her mother , that there would be nothing , nothing left . |
| 21 | Look at her all sweet and innocent , and when I turn away she 'll nick a chip I can see you sit down ! |
| 22 | If only Marc would go away she could reassure Peter that she would n't let him down . |
| 23 | Jay demanded , her voice ugly , feeling so far away she could lose no more , the angrier she grew the further Lucy went ; but when she forced herself to be quiet and good , Lucy still kept her distance . |
| 24 | she can stay away she can come , come round |
| 25 | That 's not like Dot , I felt if she 'd been called away she 'd have got word to me somehow so … so that 's why I rang the Firm . |
| 26 | In Japan there were more than 40,000 kids there but they were so far away she must have physically looked half an inch high . |
| 27 | ‘ I decided that if she had run away she must have gone somewhere where it would be very difficult to find her . |
| 28 | Right away you may ask why no one has noticed this before . |
| 29 | And away you 'd go . |
| 30 | See how far away you can move your hands from each other and still experience the sensation . |