Example sentences of "away [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone could have put it away or be using it to sweep up a broken wine glass . |
| 2 | This qualitativeness — the ‘ manifest image of the world ’ — is irreducibly connected with what experience is subjectively like , and it is part of what is lost if consciousness is analysed away or otherwise abandoned . |
| 3 | If the council thinks that you have given away or used up savings in order to qualify for , or increase the amount of your benefit they can treat you as still having those savings . |
| 4 | Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself . |
| 5 | The response was to push him off or to move away or no response at all . |
| 6 | I 'll run away or summat , or hide from Mr Jackson . |
| 7 | I thought they was going to catch a train , and that 's why they was hugging and kissing and that , but I du n no — maybe they was just planning to go away or summat . |
| 8 | After several days of dividing their possessions into things they wished to keep and things which could be given away or sold , they were ready to leave the house for the last time . |
| 9 | Whether you go away or not , I hope you all find time for a little rest and recuperation . |
| 10 | Take away or subsidise all nuclear power stations and you lose the commercial logic of the privatisation plans . |
| 11 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 12 | I had been counting on his saying no to at least one of those , so that I could issue a hollow guffaw and depart , shaking my head ruefully ; but he did not , and I had no choice but to slink away or sign in . |
| 13 | But the woman had n't said it was urgent , that his Mum should go to the hospital right away or anything . |
| 14 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 15 | But do n't get too carried away or your popularity with your owner may temporarily be lost . |
| 16 | Nathan was n't quite sure whether he should skulk away or knock and ask to come in . |
| 17 | Pictures of the Führer and Party emblems , uniforms , and literature had been thrown away or burnt before the arrival of the Russian , American , or British troops . |
| 18 | People who respond in this way have often had a difficult early life when they had separation forced upon them , maybe by a parent being hospitalized or going away or dying . |
| 19 | The sexual struggle is of two kinds ; in the one it is between individuals of the same sex , generally the male sex , in order to drive away or kill their rivals , the females remain passive ; whilst in the other the struggle is likewise between the individuals of the same sex , in order to excite or charm those of the opposite sex , generally the females , which no longer remain passive , but select more agreeable partners . |
| 20 | If I actually follow you down the street in order to be sure that you do n't throw it away or forget to post it , for instance , then I at one and the same time become certain that you 've posted it and display a lack of faith that you will do so . |
| 21 | Volunteers are naturally eager to know how well the event has done so it 's best that the cash is totalled before they leave then either banked straight away or placed in the safe keeping of the headteacher or the deputy until the bank opens on the following day . |
| 22 | To Zborowski 's annoyance , Modigliani still clung to his old habits in the cafés , making dozens of sketches and giving most of his work away or bartering it to buy drinks . |
| 23 | This gives time for water to drain away or to be picked up by wet vacuum . |
| 24 | This trust can be blown away or eroded . |
| 25 | Section 14 of the Military Lands Act 1892 set out the general enabling power , but then went on to provide ‘ that no bylaws promulgated under this section shall authorise the Secretary of State to take away or prejudicially affect any right of common ’ . |
| 26 | Frequently , too , there are major structural changes to the volcano , with a large part of it being blown away or collapsing to form a gaping crater , up to several kilometres across . |
| 27 | Sometimes , especially when the sun was low and blinding , I could not tell whether a dark shape was a rock a hundred yards away or a crag at three miles . |
| 28 | I must get away or I 'll be trapped here for life . |
| 29 | Next I would lay out pictures of a variety of TV people and characters , ranging from presenters like Cilla Black or Philip Schofield , through soap characters such as Bobby from Home and Away or Todd from Neighbours , to puppets such as Edd the Duck , who appears alongside the presenter in children 's BBC television . |
| 30 | These images also interact with other texts , particularly newspaper accounts of similar conditions , and combine to confirm for many White spectators that the truth is that housing and employment problems and so on will not go away unless Blacks are sent away or at least have their entry to Britain severely restricted . |