Example sentences of "[pron] away to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their greatest fear is that as they become weaker , ‘ caring authorities ’ will take them over and whisk them away to be ‘ looked after properly ’ . |
| 2 | We send them away to school — have to , living in the depths of the country . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a good thing you do n't know any secrets — you 'd give them away to the milkman ! ’ ’ |
| 4 | By the late 1920s these cars were really in need of drastic rebuilding and from 1927 , it was possible to send them away to Hendon for this to be done properly . |
| 5 | Do n't just give them away to the adventurers if they do n't bother even to search this room ; they must make an effort to find these bizarre items and take an interest in finding out what they do . |
| 6 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 7 | She skips and twists among them , sniffing their hind-quarters , until at last she finds the two she seeks , her own young , and leads them away to the shade of a bush and there lets them suckle . |
| 8 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 9 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
| 10 | About the fishes who swallow human sins , and carry them away to the ocean . |
| 11 | Alba was empty enough of men to govern and serve , without throwing them away to no purpose . |
| 12 | They then ferry them away to different waters in tanks in the back of transit vans . |
| 13 | I gave one of them away to the . |
| 14 | A friend collected me and whisked me away to a quieter part of the island . |
| 15 | The zoo-man at the turnstile 'd come rushing out and Vern 'd get scared and drag me away to the place where he 'd hidden my … |
| 16 | Of course , Benjamin hustled me away to a corner by ourselves and that was n't hard , everyone now distanced themselves from us . |
| 17 | We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence . |
| 18 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 19 | can we send somebody away to and do a course . |
| 20 | A sheet of flame created itself away to his left , like a scrap of brilliant paper , and a Triplane was on its back , trailing smoke . |
| 21 | Dylan Thomas immortalised such machinery in Draper Mog Edwards ' soliloquy in Under Milk Wood : I have come to take you away to my emporium on the hill , where the change hums on wires . |
| 22 | This book will whisk you away to some of the wildest and most beautiful trekking areas in the world : from the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal to the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda ; from the Royal Road of the Incas in Peru to New Zealand 's Routeburn Track ; and from stormswept Patagonia to Vancouver Island . |
| 23 | This book will whisk you away to some of the wildest and most beautiful trekking areas in the world : from the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal to the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda ; from the Royal Road of the Incas in Peru to New Zealand 's Routeburn Track ; and from stormswept Patagonia to Vancouver Island . |
| 24 | I 'll have to spirit you away to my cave , and dispose of you on the white-slave market , just like wicked old Hasan . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Are n't you afraid I 'll give you away to someone ? ’ she taunted . |
| 26 | I said that I was going to take you away to Arrancay with me — and keep you there away from all the bitterness and the lies . |
| 27 | She had been determined not to give anything of herself away to him , but he had succeeded in antagonising her to such a pitch that she almost could n't help herself . |
| 28 | On off days he could sound tired , and sometimes excitement carried him away to an excess of length . |
| 29 | Michael took the case from him and led him away to the hired car . |
| 30 | — His great-grandad lived next door to me for years , before they took him away to that home . |