Example sentences of "away to " in BNC.
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| 1 | No dugouts , though ; only the water hyacinths travelling up from the south , and floating away to the west , clump after clump , with the thick-stalked lilac flowers like masts . |
| 2 | ‘ Go away to the army , then — you will be your own man there . ’ |
| 3 | Anyway , they would never give a man away to the soldiers … ‘ |
| 4 | He laughed and turned away to the hearth . |
| 5 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This might happen if you give money away to members of your family or if you buy expensive items in order to reduce your savings . |
| 8 | Some of the same movements are repeated yet again in the final pas de deux , when the Prince raises her high above the glistening Stars before leading her away to the land where ‘ they lived happily ever after ’ , where all fairy tales should end . |
| 9 | Sent away to boarding school when she was six ( she rarely sees her family now ) , she got three A- levels at college and shortly after got married : a mistake , she now realises , but she was pregnant at the time . |
| 10 | FOLKESTONE had four players sent off but still 1-0 win away to Redhill , who also had a player dismissed by referee Steve Coffin , of Peacehaven . |
| 11 | Despite Parkes 's defection , Birmingham are expected to win their opening match away to Hampshire North , who finished sixth in the league last year . |
| 12 | She could well understand how women in particular wanted to get away to the West where daily life was so much more convenient . |
| 13 | Successive home defeats , this one by a single goal , have seen them plummet from second to 10th , and their next two games are away to the leaders , Sheffield United , and at home to second-placed Sunderland . |
| 14 | EALING went to the top of the Women 's Typhoo National League with a comfortable 3-0 win away to Exmouth at Ottery St Mary , writes Bill Colwill . |
| 15 | Equally the problems at Dagenham may have influenced the decision to switch the Sierra away to Ford 's Belgian plant at Genk even though the company 's strategy is to concentrate a single model at each plant . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | COMMERCIAL rose growers are praying for rain so they can start getting bare-root plants out of the ground and away to customers . |
| 18 | Away to the left across the fields , and probably in the area of No. 3 Commando , flares were going up , followed by very rapid rifle and machine gun fire . |
| 19 | As I made my way through the trees in the direction of the village and Brigade H.Q there were several loud explosions a short distance away to my right , followed by a loud burst of automatic fire . |
| 20 | Just after passing level with house ( visible away to left ) , avoid stone bridge on left leading to iron gates but fork left 20 yds later on to path which crosses stream and follows it then reaches road . |
| 21 | In next field keep well to left of trees ahead by bearing quarter left ( soon fence away to right comes into view ) . |
| 22 | On off days he could sound tired , and sometimes excitement carried him away to an excess of length . |
| 23 | fading away to the final ‘ whimper ’ . |
| 24 | After the prayers they went up in turn and kissed Moran and then Rose who returned their kisses warmly , and they slipped away to their rooms . |
| 25 | As he ate and drank she found herself chattering away to him out of nervousness , a stream of things that went through her head , the small happenings of a day . |
| 26 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 27 | Immediately after they tidied and washed up , they went to kiss Moran good night and slipped away to their rooms . |
| 28 | A snow bunting twitters away to my left , laughing — as it turns out — at what is about to happen next , when I find that the volcanic dish is shallow and filled with grass and wind-blown rubbish . |
| 29 | The seal , too far away to be identified with certainty but probably a grey , peers myopically and is gone . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I 'm away to my lunch . |