Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] away [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'd mentioned Pépin Le Bref , or Madame sans Géne , he 'd have prattled away for hours ! |
| 2 | Suzi was never going to backpack round the world or become a rock star , and if she had been forced to go and live away from home — to study nursing , for instance — she 'd have mouldered away from homesickness . |
| 3 | You know , like , cos it 's , used to say now , I mean I 'd like to , I would like to go away at Christmas |
| 4 | I would have to slip away to toilets , down basement stairs , off into the closed stacks of the library and there strike the flint . |
| 5 | Then there was that bleating Prime Minister on ’ Desert Island Discs ’ saying that he would love to get away from Question Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |