Example sentences of "away [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin 's awa I think he 's , he 's taking kids away for camping and things all next week but I 'll , I 'll try |
| 2 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 3 | If the police get to him first , he 'll be put away for life . ’ |
| 4 | I was sent away for life , and they 'll hang me if they discover I 've come back . ’ |
| 5 | The judge decided that Magwitch , a convict sent away for life who had returned , must be hanged . |
| 6 | Put them away for life we hope . |
| 7 | Is there any point in trying to go away for Easter now if there 's so much going on ? |
| 8 | The company were unable to sell the redundant equipment and finally had to resort to paying for it to be broken up and taken away for scrap : a sad end to a long and honourable career . |
| 9 | they rush for the spent shells , cart them away for scrap . |
| 10 | He snatched his furniture from the house and dumped it on a tip , then took the car which he had given her as a present away for scrap . |
| 11 | At this point Fleischmann decided that as the whole thing was going ahead , then he should make the best of it and then get away for home in England immediately . |
| 12 | Instead , staff are putting them into special collecting bins so that they can be taken away for recycling . |
| 13 | Even his clothes were taken away for testing . |
| 14 | What little remained of victims of the fire was carried away for identification and autopsy . |
| 15 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 16 | , love , put it away for god 's sake , aye . |
| 17 | If an insect blunders into it the owner will rush out , deliver a swift poisoned bite to her victim and then wrap it in bonds of yet a different silk and carry it away for consumption at leisure . |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't want to be giving these things away for publicity reasons , ’ a company spokesman told New Scientist last week . |
| 19 | Erm yes , Mr Chairman I should like to apologise to Bob for interrupting him then because er the enthusiasm about the green code business of course has to do with the Hatfield community project and is not initiated by Welwyn Hatfield when in the use er Herts County Council Paul in the community project , but nevertheless the green cone idea is the individual person , it 's not the District Council and it 's not somebody else taking a taking green erm green type away for composting . |
| 20 | And when the needles , which had been kept in a plastic container , were sent away for analysis traces of amphetamine were detected . |
| 21 | Their knives were sent away for analysis and when the results came back indicating the presence of copper on the blades the rest of the suspects were released . |
| 22 | Fearing that the seat might be stolen the councillors arranged for it to be taken away for safe-keeping . |
| 23 | Fearing that the seat might be stolen the councillors arranged for it to be taken away for safe-keeping . |
| 24 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 25 | According to the police at least 600 supporters had to be turned away for safety reasons . |
| 26 | the one that got away for swindon speedway was the final of the division two knockout cup … they were racing against Glasgow in the final … the first leg at Blunsdon finished in a draw … 54 points a piece … |
| 27 | A British Airways spokeswoman said the damaged windscreen had been removed by engineers and taken away for examination . |
| 28 | Christopher Jabelman 's body is taken away for examination , above . |
| 29 | The empty dishes , china , and uneaten food had been taken away for examination , so the sight and smell were somewhat more palatable than they had been the day before . |
| 30 | The transporter is being taken away for examination by Department of Transport experts investigating the cause of the accident |