Example sentences of "away [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 30 days of aerobic walking and cutting down on fattening foods I had walked away half a stone . |
| 2 | It is lamentable that few butchers have the storage or the cash to put away half a hundredweight of potential turnover , watch it shrink by ten to fifteen per cent and charge the prices needed to make it all worthwhile . |
| 3 | That 's giving away half the estate er half the house value on the first er death . |
| 4 | He 's away half the time . |
| 5 | So that you have your they 're not so daft as to know that two people who are going to come and live even if Richard 's away half the time . |
| 6 | He 's away such a lot these days , trying to develop more hotels . ’ |
| 7 | I have n't got a baby sister said Sally in a low queer voice , I 'm the only one , mother and I have been everything to each other , daddy has to go , go away such a lot , I have n't got a baby sister . |
| 8 | You take away all the road |
| 9 | There 's ditches where er s the water has run away all the boulder clay and left maybe a ditch , this one was nine feet deep . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't just throw away all the work I 'd already done ! ’ |
| 11 | Her voice was lovely , but it took away all the life from the words . |
| 12 | Police said a vehicle must have been used to carry away all the equipment and officers are asking anyone with information to contact them on Middlesbrough 326326 . |
| 13 | He was stroking her hair , as though to stroke away all the hurt he had inflicted . |
| 14 | And his ecstasy had soon become her ecstasy , an electrochemical fuel that had ignited in her , burning away all the taint of that earlier false frenzy enforced on her by the Harlequin man . |
| 15 | ‘ But do n't you get into trouble from your parents for running away all the time ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 16 | Each big chief was preceded by some twenty slaves on mules banging away on kettle drums , with war horns and huge flutes blaring away all the time . |
| 17 | Er well it er it was normal because it was the only time I , I 've heard it happen in Street anyway but there were , there was kids being sent away all the time to borstal and er for doing wrong things . |
| 18 | ‘ I run away all the time . |
| 19 | And er of course we took away all the iron beds , put wooden beds , we put little wardrobes in the rooms and these thi tackling it bit by bit each year you see . |
| 20 | You took away all the bitterness . ’ |
| 21 | Tons and tons of waste are piled on to giant furnaces every day , burning away all the waste . |
| 22 | The best moment on ‘ Strangeways , Here We Come ’ was , strangely , the most obvious statement Morrissey ever made in a lyric , ‘ Paint A Vulgar Picture ’ offered no new insights to the tacky edge of such a subject , but it did sound as though he had finally decided to cast away all the ambiguity of his writing and head , simplistically , for the jugular . |
| 23 | Peel 3 more oranges , cutting away all the pith and membrane . |