Example sentences of "[to-vb] away to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to slip away to toilets , down basement stairs , off into the closed stacks of the library and there strike the flint . |
| 2 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 3 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 4 | Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east . |
| 5 | The concept is an enormous one for twelve-year-olds to grasp with any sense of reality , for many children of that age would regard it as fun if their family had to go away to new lands — just as I can recall at that age receiving the news of the outbreak of the Second World War with great joy ! |
| 6 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |
| 7 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 8 | Set three days aside in your diary ( within the next three months ) to go away to a hotel with your team and tackle the issue . |
| 9 | When they turned seven , the boys had to go away to boys ' schools . |
| 10 | ‘ Pappy , I want to go away to school . |
| 11 | They had to go away to be analysed , and I went back to court and ended up getting a £150 fine or seven days in prison — I paid the fine . |
| 12 | Occasionally we had to go away to one of our other convents for meetings . |
| 13 | Oh they went , they went to the ones they used to go away to and and Castle . |
| 14 | But as I say I do n't do that kind of thing , I , I prefer to go away to the hills , |
| 15 | It 's had to go away to the makers . |
| 16 | She 's erm , ta , she 's got Alzheimer 's and she 's getting really bad , she 's getting a danger to herself and she 's got to go away to tomorrow . |
| 17 | This upward jerk can be very painful and is sometimes enough to dishearten the attacker and allow the hedgehog to scuttle away to safety without having to resort to the passive rolling-up defence . |
| 18 | The passengers , replete with the lamb and chocolate mousse , lingered over coffee , and began to drift away to the dome car 's bar lounge . |
| 19 | Inevitably this proximity involved a fair amount of touching and occasional pressures , which the man found very much to his taste , and which the young woman at least did not object to sufficiently to draw away to the limits of her corner . |
| 20 | At one end of the scale , some of use make things solely for our own use , or to give away to our friends and relations . |
| 21 | We 've got two adult tickets ( children 's entry is free ) to give away to the spectacular Green Autumn Flower Show in Harrogate on September 13–14 , 1991 . |
| 22 | The trap of the giver is pride , believing that you have enough inner resources to give away to others . |
| 23 | Exclusively available from L'Oréal salons , we 've 1000 sets of shampoo and conditioner to give away to the first 1000 names drawn from the postbag on October 31 ( 100 for subscribers only ) . |
| 24 | We have 20 copies to give away to the first 20 readers whose names are pulled out of the bag on July 9 1992 , send your name and address on an adhesive label to Business Executive Diaries Ltd , Cornerways , Brenchley Road , Brenchley , Tonbridge , Kent TN12 7PB . |
| 25 | We have 15 to give away to the first readers whose named are pulled out of the bag on July 8 . |
| 26 | We have 60 bottles to give away to the first readers to answer the following question and send their answer , with their name and address , to : . |
| 27 | GARDEN PLANTS FOR FREE The Gardener has 5 copies of Alan and Adrian Bloom 's Blooms of Bressingham Garden Plants to give away to the first five readers whose names are drawn from the postbag after 31 December 1992 . |
| 28 | We have 10 Swish Powerglydes to give away to subscribers . |
| 29 | We have 15 pairs of Dartington Crystal Irish Coffee glasses to give away to subscribers , along with a 70 cl bottle of Warninks Advocaat . |
| 30 | We have 250 jars of peach halves , each worth £3.95 , to give away to the first readers to write in . |