Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] away " in BNC.

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1 To the people the youthful 48-year-old worked with in the theatrical world she was a real professional on stage and a bubbly , friendly extrovert away from the audience .
2 Clara swore that she would pay for herself out of her Post Office Savings : her mother said that her dead father had n't put that money away for her to squander on trips abroad .
3 Surely you would n't take that money away from me ?
4 She swallowed and almost pleaded , ‘ You would n't seriously take that money away from me ? ’
5 We have to move all that money away from Chambers , back to all those little provincial banks .
6 Well can I just ask , there was , th there were four there were four of the rock and roll ones and the piece up there that wanted to going back on , have you thrown that bit away Alex ?
7 They played only in the morning , to put themselves six or eight hours away from a place by dark .
8 He stole your dear heart away with his lies .
9 This Devonian is more than a useful one-day cricketer who does his stuff as a medium-pace seamer. he is rated as a sound technical batsman , sure-footed against the spinner and able to get the short-pitched bowling away .
10 If you do n't put that mike away I 'll give you such a big slap
11 If you 're not gon na play with the Lego Chrissy , can you pack some into the boxes and I 'll put that board away .
12 He saw that God was things , was in and of things , every sort of thing , breathing through them , breathing out of them — and if you took that presence away then the things , every sort of thing , would have no colour , no movement , no smell , no sting , no Point .
13 Instead many anglers seem to be dedicated to throwing their hard earned money away on super expensive ingredients .
14 Well it is supposed to be talking about managing the system and not d not taking people 's e professional expertise away from them .
15 It was ‘ the sport of kings ’ after all , and however dangerous , Charles was determined that no one was going to take that pleasure away from him .
16 If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy .
17 He eased his broad shoulders away from it and strolled slowly towards her , a faint , confident smile playing about his lips .
18 For them the MacSharry treatment is grim : slashed prices , grants that taper away with increasing size of farm , and good land forced to lie fallow .
19 They recall his taste for long walks of twenty to twenty-five miles in rural settings away from Battersea , his passion for fishing in ponds and canals , and his accurate enlightening knowledge of birds , trees , insects , and flowers .
20 I felt guilty staying away so long . ’
21 United managed only one credible scoring effort in the 1-0 defeat away to Aston Villa which left them eight points adrift of Arsenal .
22 But it 's that side away from the river , you know , I I ca n't link it with the river .
23 As the moving convection cell carries basaltic crust away from the ridge , slowly but continuously , the magnetic reversals taking place every few hundred thousand years or so leave their imprints on the newly-formed rocks emerging from the ridge ; as every reversal occurs , so it is recorded in the formation of reversely-magnetized strips on each side of the ridge .
24 Activities including fishing , walking , company conferences , product launches or just a memorable break away from it all : they are all catered for at Aldwark Manor .
25 He pushed his mobile tray away from him , mumbled non-committally , lay down and turned on his right side , determined not to be trapped again .
26 Keep silver or chrome-plated cutlery away from stainless steel .
27 He also wanted voters to have the right to cast their ballots anywhere in Namibia , rather than in towns and villages where voters can be recognised , and to keep the tallymen from Namibia 's political parties away from the polling stations and from places where votes would be counted .
28 Mr Harvey Edgar , a disabled pensioner , said : ‘ The only thing the politicians have said about this island today is that they are pulling another bit away from us — a very large bit . ’
29 When he brushed some hair away from her face he might just as well have placed his hand on her most intimate spot .
30 Those who missed it should start putting a few pennies away each week from now on and book the second weekend in September in their advance diaries , so that they have no excuse to miss Keele 1994 .
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