Example sentences of "[noun sg] away but " in BNC.

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1 hour away but if you have a breakdown , and Auntie Mary and she 'll get all worked up .
2 She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ?
3 I , I 'm not looking to put a l put a large amount of money away but that 's I 'm interested in that .
4 Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked .
5 The move seemed dead when Springbok full-back Theo van Rensburg hacked the ball away but it flew straight to Rory Underwood .
6 Orrell made a mistake by losing possession and giving the ball away but their hand was forced by the cherry and whites relentless drive forward .
7 The town centre is half a mile away but there are shops and cafés on the main road close by .
8 Despite having one wing afire and disintegrating , he managed to get his crew away but only after his flight engineer , FS Colgan , found a parachute and attached it , and had gone to the aid of the wounded tail gunner .
9 Angered , Sara tried to snatch her hand away but he held on to her wrist and put his other arm around her shoulders .
10 There is a story do n't give the answer away but who would you say is very positive , one of the most aggressive chat show hosts in , say , today could be I T V or B B C ?
11 I knew all these stars were a long , long way away but they did n't look far away .
12 It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits .
13 Are you gon na send any , Catriona I know it 's a long way away but
14 Not very much because the moon is quite a long way away but there is amount of attraction .
15 ‘ I would have brought a copy away but they wanted them all .
16 Fran jerked her arm away but it did little to loosen the crushing grip of his powerful fingers .
17 He allowed Rose to take the gun away but not before he had removed the empty shell .
18 Well looking back on it now it seems almost a life time away but it 's amazing just how well you can remember those far off days .
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