Example sentences of "their [noun sg] away [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the tapes had been in the possession of the Walsh investigating team for some time , their significance concerning Fiers had apparently surfaced only recently when the investigators turned their attention away from members of the administration of former President Ronald Reagan in favour of concentrating on the connection between senior CIA officials and the Iran-contra affair . |
| 2 | In France , a conspiracy of Calvinists and ‘ political ’ Huguenots against the Guises , which ended with the ‘ Tumult of Amboise ’ in mid March with its hideous reprisals , left the Guises victorious , but it deflected their attention away from Scotland at a critical moment . |
| 3 | Manchester City 's Quinn netted in the eleventh minute in their match away to Port Vale , but the home side drew level with ace marksman Beckford after thirty six minutes . |
| 4 | As a result clinical ecologists are shifting their focus away from allergy and towards toxicology , telling patients that they are being poisoned by minute doses of everyday substances or even by domestic electricity . |
| 5 | Their move away from video , while strengthening a resolve with the fans , has been strongly criticised within business circles . |
| 6 | buy their stuff away down south and take it . |
| 7 | For them I hope the experience reinforces their movement away from fanaticism and fundamentalism . |
| 8 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 9 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 10 | The couple eventually eloped but their happiness away from Antenor 's disapproval was brief : five months after their marriage , Maria Isabel was dead from a fatal brain disorder . |
| 11 | A new £6 million plant has been built at Baleycourt , France , to increase capacity from 2,000 to 10,000 tonnes , to help user industries in their conversion away from CFCs . |
| 12 | Servants hurried in and out of kitchens with pitchers of water while others sat in the shade whiling their time away with dice and other games of hazard . |
| 13 | The men idled their time away on street corners or outside the pub , cadging a drink or a smoke . |