Example sentences of "away [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
| 2 | When I reach its head the man in charge goes away to conduct a transaction involving cardboard boxes . |
| 3 | Malcolm Harris , whose school had Games on Wednesday afternoons , had managed to get away to see the rehearsal . |
| 4 | After an endless pause , Roman swung away to drain the remainder of his gin and tonic , snapping the glass back on the table with a decisive click . |
| 5 | He turned away to greet a man slouching by . |
| 6 | As for affirmations , well , when slogging away to meet a deadline I 've found that repeating , ‘ You 're tougher than you think ’ while gulping down a large glass of gin works a treat . |
| 7 | His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river , which he knew was flowing through the great city ; and now he thought how black it was , and how deep it would look , reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea ( 6 ) . |
| 8 | The pattern of duality is broken , significantly , in two places : at the very beginning , in the poignantly simple opening sentence ; and at the very end , where there is the unexpected addition of a third , and longer member to the parallelism of how clauses : and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea " . |
| 9 | Then he raced away to find a doctor . |
| 10 | The workers surrounding the dancer watch it closely , remember the message and fly away to find the flower . |
| 11 | She 's done a bunk , Mr Trilby said to himself and he went away to inform the School Governors that the Headmistress had apparently vanished . |
| 12 | The price of a loaf of bread was several hours labour and both the miller and the domestic baker had to slog away to procuce a loaf . |
| 13 | Ronni glanced away to hide the flush that touched her cheeks . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so glad for you and George , ’ she said warmly , but when Elizabeth turned away to serve a customer , Tamar looked at Annie with a worried expression . |
| 15 | With more petulance then penitence he described how he had noticed Sean 's knife as the barman was called away to serve a customer . |
| 16 | He turned away to open the case . |
| 17 | Jane flashed a grin at Patrick and turned away to open the door . |
| 18 | His words faded , and he put his hands on her shoulders again and turned her face him , holding her gaze by the sheer power of his will until , steeled and strengthened by her desperate need to break the spell , Merrill wrenched herself away to open the car door . |
| 19 | At about seven months of age the average baby is quite skilled at removing obstacles to prehension ; is well able , for example , to pull a cushion away to reach a rattle behind it . |
| 20 | It is being borne away to feed the eagle 's babies . |
| 21 | Start straight away to answer the problem . |
| 22 | A second later he had levered himself up off the bed , striding away to answer the call . |
| 23 | ‘ THERE were no political reasons behind this , it 's just vandalism , ’ Pavel Edelstein said , looking around the remains of the Pribram Jewish cemetery before turning away to engage a group of old women in conversation . |
| 24 | I considered slipping away to chew a mouthful of toothpowder . |
| 25 | As the coal went down over the winter months , these boards would be taken away to lower the height . |
| 26 | Hoc nodded dumbly as his brother sped away to fetch a spade and rope from the cat 's quarters . |
| 27 | Three minutes later , Payton put a precise pass through the home defence , and John Hendrie accelerated away to walk the ball past Welch for his fifth goal this season . |
| 28 | Phillis was away to help the law , she fingered out the Weasel . |
| 29 | I returned after a ten minute wait and the clouds rolled away to waken the scene from its gloomy darkness . |
| 30 | He had already had his own and he went away to play the harpsichord for twenty minutes . |