Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
| 2 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 3 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
| 4 | It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds . |
| 5 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |
| 6 | Instead new development has gradually gravitated away from North Shields and is now much nearer to Whitley Bay [ then a separate local authority ] . |
| 7 | The walls have turned a gruesome red-brown from the urine which has also eaten away at the wooden structure of one of the portals . |
| 8 | The onus of showing reliance has now shifted away from the buyer and it is for the seller to prove that there was no reasonable reliance . |
| 9 | I might have guessed , ’ and then he uttered a string of oaths , so oddly at variance with his usual smooth and civilised manner and appearance that Sally-Anne shivered and tried again to pull away from him , but he held her more tightly than ever . |
| 10 | The detective has therefore moved away from the centrally important activity of seizing the villains into a manipulated world where the paper exercise of statistical detections is used to assuage politicians , the media , and a public obsessed with the moral panic of increasing crime rates . |
| 11 | Coxall and Robins ’ ( 1989 , p. 309 ) apology for a Conservative-dominated press , that ‘ it has never shied away from criticising the Conservative Party or a Conservative Government ’ , is misleading . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , I think you got just keep away from the from the centre . |
| 13 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 14 | She snapped the locks on the case , lifting it from the table , wanting only to get away from Luke Calder as fast as she could . |
| 15 | We 'd better stay away from here for the moment . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 17 | ‘ Then you 'd better keep away from the disco , ’ said Willis . |
| 18 | Erm , you 'd better keep away from Papa . |
| 19 | and , er I always say that I am so grateful I am not , because I 've seen what it 's done and our Marg with Val her sister , we 've both got sisters who are extremely jealous you 've seen them , you 've seen jealously eat away at them |
| 20 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |
| 21 | The beast is becoming almost like a God , Jack pretends to forget about it , Simon wants to confront it , whereas Piggy compromises by wanting just to stay away from it . |
| 22 | Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd do best to meet away from the office , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ I came here to get away from them ’ . |
| 25 | Because I came here to get away from people , not to bump into them . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He came here to get away from all women . |
| 27 | I came here to get away from that . ’ |
| 28 | He admitted last night : ‘ We will do well to come away with a point this time . |
| 29 | He reckoned he had done well to get away with two cups of tea and forty minutes of reminiscence before an opening arose to thrust in a question . |
| 30 | And he cited two papers , co-authored by Derek Bryce-Smith , professor of organic chemistry at the University of Reading , as being the result of ‘ individual scientists who have got rather carried away in a flush of enthusiasm . ’ |