Example sentences of "away to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's another of his ideas which he keeps trying to interest people in ; he has a manuscript on the subject ( ‘ The State of the Fart ’ ) which he also sends away to London to publishers now and again and which they of course send back by return . |
| 2 | , Norman Hector Leifchild ( ‘ Nathaniel ’ ) ( 1893–1976 ) , humorous columnist , was born 31 May 1893 at 4 Somerset Road , Ealing , Middlesex , the only surviving son ( there were also three older daughters , of whom the younger two were twins ) of William Gubbins , commercial traveller , formerly an Oxfordshire farmworker who had run away to London at the age of twelve to sell groceries , and his wife Marie Cecile Richards . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking , ’ said Rachaela , ‘ I may need to get away to London for a while , after all . ’ |
| 4 | He was sent away to school in Nykoøbing Mors , living with grandparents for seven years . |
| 5 | But he asked her to run away to Brazil with him ! ’ |
| 6 | By the late 1920s these cars were really in need of drastic rebuilding and from 1927 , it was possible to send them away to Hendon for this to be done properly . |
| 7 | By the late 1920s when it became possible to send cars away to Hendon for a thorough overhaul , they were all in really tired condition . |
| 8 | ‘ When we were 15 or so , we started going away to competitions around the country with our tents . |
| 9 | They ran away to India in the 1920s , and there he worked as a colliery engineer . |
| 10 | When he was about ten his father left the family and ran away to America with his employer 's wife . |
| 11 | They 're away to Everton on Saturday … another group of no-hopers with something to prove ? |
| 12 | As Joseph led his people away to winter in the Imnaha canyons , however , all the commissioners except Wood signed a report recommending the suppression of all Dreamer shamans , military occupation of the Wallowa and removal ‘ by force ’ of all non-treaty bands . |
| 13 | There is seldom enough winter keep for the whole of the breeding stock , and ewe lambs are often sent away to winter in less rugged conditions . |
| 14 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 15 | This might happen if you give money away to members of your family or if you buy expensive items in order to reduce your savings . |
| 16 | They drew three three away to Wolves after trailing by three goals to one with just four minutes remaining , the full story of this exciting game — Nick Harris . |
| 17 | I said that I was going to take you away to Arrancay with me — and keep you there away from all the bitterness and the lies . |
| 18 | Fixtures : Tomorrow , Juniors away to Bradford in Northern Intermediate League . |
| 19 | England play away to Poland on May 29 next year , with the return at Wembley on September 8 . |
| 20 | Shearer 's injury might not be on quite the same scale , but it will keep him out of qualifiers in Turkey next month , the Netherlands at home in April and the end-of-season double away to Poland on 29 May and Norway four days later . |
| 21 | Now I think we can go back to White Hart Lane ; Oxford United losing this afternoon by four goals to two away to Spurs in the F A Cup fourth round , and I believe that Nick Harris is with manager Brian Horton . |
| 22 | The GPs fear those services could be moved twenty five miles away to Oxford under a review ordered by the District Health Authority . |
| 23 | Jane found solace in the humour and support of the local people : Davyd , Meryvn , the clever Henry , aged sixty-eight but very spry , who had run away to sea at fifteen , and did everything so well and systematically — shipshape , in fact . |
| 24 | He ran away to sea at fifteen and made a name for himself as a good , but sadistic , fist fighter . |
| 25 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 26 | So when , a few years later , Céline abandoned Adèle and ran away to Italy with a singer , I went to Paris and brought Adèle back to grow up in England . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If you 're away to glory in some sort of wilderness I suppose I have n't much option — but I must say that this is mighty strange — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The Mayor is desperate to attract more money — not give it away to things like the US Open , which is more than able to take care of itself ’ , he said . |
| 29 | But other news locally : Aylesbury United , they 've been drawn away to Dagenham in the fourth qualifying round of the F A Cup , and that match will be , and I 've checked this out , Dagenham play at the Victoria Road , and that 'll be on Saturday the twenty seventh of October . |
| 30 | Boss Malcolm Crosby has taken only eight fit players away to Scotland in preparation for the derby clash and the Cup semi-final showdown with Norwich . |