Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Oh yeah , I think you got just keep away from the from the centre . |
| 5 | We 'd better stay away from here for the moment . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 7 | ‘ Then you 'd better keep away from the disco , ’ said Willis . |
| 8 | Erm , you 'd better keep away from Papa . |
| 9 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I came here to get away from them ’ . |
| 12 | Because I came here to get away from people , not to bump into them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He came here to get away from all women . |
| 14 | I came here to get away from that . ’ |
| 15 | I took long breaks away from training and would then reappear like the proverbial bad penny , as if I had never been away . |
| 16 | The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out . |
| 17 | By contrast , the rather trashy and bitchy biog. of Nancy Reagan is compelling because of one 's disbelief that she could and did actually get away with as much as she did . |
| 18 | There was fierce controversy surrounding the conference 's decision on April 22 to invite , as guests , members of the 1981 Solidarity leadership who had since split away from the union — most notably the former national co-ordinating commission member Andrzej Gwiazda , who had left after accusing Solidarity 's chairman , Lech Walesa , of generating a personality cult . |
| 19 | It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession . |
| 20 | They were confronted , by contrast , by Prime Ministers of the calibre of Pitt the Younger and by the time Victoria ascended the throne executive power had effectively shifted away from the throne and into the Cabinet room . |
| 21 | They had all gone away to be professionally stripped . |
| 22 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 23 | You two girls had better keep away from that part of the world while they 're about . |
| 24 | She and had obviously gone away for the weekend . |
| 25 | In Alessio Rospigliosi had already turned away from the heavily exploited areas of classical mythology and Christian epic to open up the unpromising vein of hagiology ; he now struck an infinitely more successful one . |
| 26 | running from care : over half the 179 youngsters who had run from care were persistent absconders and had already run away at least five times before going to the safe house . |
| 27 | His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court . |
| 28 | The guerrillas , who stormed the hotel early on Tuesday morning , trapping 87 guests including the OAU secretary-general had already slipped away before dawn . |
| 29 | He looked back , briefly , but Kirov had already melted away into the darkness . |
| 30 | They could not forget that the American government had already backed away from some of its more liberal inclinations on postwar world economic development in the face of various domestic pressure groups . |