Example sentences of "went away [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we went away into this place called Short Strand |
| 2 | She liked it , and then after Colonel Hamilton died she never went away at all , even in the winter . |
| 3 | Well I used to do , what you 're doing see , you 're in charge of loading the ship , see but they did , first of all they , they , we had er , we had a foreman stevedore , then we had , and then erm we had the stevedores and the dockers they went away on these courses , down to ones , they used to go to Southampton and some went to Hull , but when they came back , they called theirselves stevedores , so course our harbourmaster , he say that 's not right , they 're stevedores , well you got ta be all called foremen stevedores , so Captain come to me , he said , what are we gon na call you ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She went away with some men in brown uniforms and will not come back to her little boy . |
| 6 | In return , she offered to look after my own birds when I went away for one weekend ( it was after the war but rationing was still in force , and most people who could , kept chickens ) . |
| 7 | Daphne recalls how , early on , ‘ I made the mistake of allowing one to become too fond of me and , when I went away for two weeks , she died of a broken heart . |
| 8 | A man exclaimed , ‘ Shit ! ’ and went away for real . |
| 9 | Just before Christmas I moved jobs , and in the middle of January I went away for three days on a course . |
| 10 | Went away for half-term holiday . |
| 11 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 12 | Jeff Rooker , the MP for Birmingham Perry Barr , who retired from Labour 's front bench last year partly to campaign for PR , said : ‘ A lot more people went away from this conference convinced of the merits of the argument than is shown in the vote . ’ |