I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car drives off/away
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The police car drove off at top speed.
a headache goes away (= it stops )
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I'd like to lie down for a bit to make my headache go away,
a long way away
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Liz lives in Cheltenham, which is a long way away .
a sound dies away (= stops gradually )
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I listened until the sound had died away completely.
an away game (= played at an opposing team's sports field )
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We didn't win any away games last season.
an away match (= played at the place where the opponent usually practises )
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This is their last away match of the season.
anger/confidence/tension/hope etc drains away
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Sally felt her anger drain away.
away fans (= fans visiting another team’s sports field )
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Two sections of the ground had been allocated to away fans.
divert (sb’s) attention (away from sb/sth)
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The crime crackdown is an attempt to divert attention from social problems.
drag yourself away from (= stop watching )
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Can you drag yourself away from the TV for a minute?
farther away/apart/down/along etc
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The boats were drifting farther and farther apart.
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a resort town farther up the coast
farthest away/apart etc
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She lived farthest away from school of all of us.
gave the game away (= showed something that he was trying to keep secret )
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The look on his face gave the game away .
Get...squared away
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Get your work squared away before you leave.
give away a secret (= tell it to someone carelessly or by mistake )
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I had to be careful not to give away any secrets.
give away sb’s identity (= accidentally reveal it )
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The thief gave away his identity by mistake.
give the game away (= give information that should be secret )
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I don’t want to give the game away by saying too much.
has...stashed away
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He has money stashed away in the Bahamas.
keep/stay away from an area
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The police ordered people to stay away from the area.
right away (= immediately )
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I’ll phone him right away .
rock erodes (away) (= its surface is gradually removed because of the action of water, wind etc )
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The rocks had eroded away over the years.
sb’s anger goes away/subsides/fades (= it stops )
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I counted to ten and waited for my anger to go away.
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His anger slowly subsided.
sb’s voice trails off/away (= becomes quieter until you cannot hear it )
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‘It's just that … ’, his voice trailed away uncertainly.
scrape off/away paint (= take most of the paint off a surface using a tool )
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Scrape off any loose or flaking paint and rub the surface with sandpaper.
signing away...life
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I felt as if I was signing away my life.
slave (away) over a hot stove (= cook – used humorously )
take away sb’s licence ( also revoke sb's licence formal )
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The doctor had his license revoked after he was found to be on drugs.
the pain goes away ( also the pain subsides formal ) (= becomes less severe )
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He lay still until the pain had subsided to a dull ache.
There is no getting away from (= you cannot avoid or deny this fact )
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There is no getting away from this fact .
throw away a lead (= to lose the lead )
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Arsenal threw away a two-goal lead.
throw away/pass up/turn down a chance (= not accept or use an opportunity )
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Imagine throwing up a chance to go to America!
took to...straight away
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Sandra took to it straight away .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stone's throw from sth/away (from sth)
away from prying eyes
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She is finally able to relax with friends, away from prying eyes.
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Until the key is used, the contents of the message are locked away from prying eyes.
be a heartbeat away from sth
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The Red Sox are a heartbeat away from the American League championship.
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The Red Sox are a heartbeat away from landing another blue-chip bullpen stopper.
be miles away
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I don't mean to disturb you, you looked miles away -- but there's a call for you.
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Sorry, I was miles away. What did you say?
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First, the man was miles away in London.
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For a moment there you seemed to be miles away.
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Given that the factory producing the chocolate is miles away, the resulting confections are really quite good.
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Her mind was miles away, focused on imaginary scenarios being played out between Piers and Nicole.
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I was miles away from the possibility of victory tonight.
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That was the image that occurred to me, but by the time I thought of it we were miles away.
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Their great protector was miles away, engrossed in Parcheesi.
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Whoever it was must be miles away by now.
be tucked away
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Nell's private letters were tucked away in a box in the attic.
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The campground is tucked away in a valley.
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About 50 kinds of nonalcoholic beverages are tucked away in the specially marked sections of liquor store coolers.
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Cappellini's elegant showroom was tucked away in Via Statuto.
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Foldaway slippers for the flight are tucked away in a holdall with disposable nappies and sick tablets.
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Grandmother's portrait had been there before but was tucked away now in an alcove in the dining-room.
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Great bolts of cloth are tucked away on ledges behind him, where they look just as snug as mummies.
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Oh yet, it was tucked away in a cupboard, and was immobile and almost unplayable!
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The stage is tucked away like a box in the wall.
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Tiny baskets of cherries are tucked away in the display, an idea popular in Victorian times.
be well away
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It's just a shame he was such an ugly old boiler, otherwise I'd be well away!
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Mathilda will be well away now.
be/get carried away
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But are we allowing ourselves to be carried away by false vanity?
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He must not get carried away in this place, he thought.
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He sometimes would get carried away and invite more than his allotted guests, which generated some irritation among members.
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I get carried away, but I must learn now it's the big league.
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It certainly seemed as if their brains got carried away when one type of receptive field was activated.
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Lets not get carried away with thoughts of another 18 years in the wilderness.
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So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise.
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The problem.solver gets carried away by the interest of the idea.
blink back/away tears
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I noticed that his hands were trembling slightly, and he seemed to be blinking back tears.
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She needed to blink away tears.
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Touching the welt, Howard tried to blink back tears before going inside.
blow/clear the cobwebs away
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It will blow the cobwebs away.
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Talk about blowing the cobwebs away!
by far/far and away
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Coolness is by far and away the most important feature of a car these days.
get away from it all
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Get away from it all in sunny Barbados.
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Coe, on the other hand, is getting away from it all with a weeks holiday in Helsinki.
get away with murder
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His parents let him get away with murder.
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She lets those kids get away with murder.
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But the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is angry that some other local authorities are letting agents get away with murder.
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He can get away with anything, he could get away with murder and my mom would still love him.
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I think the women of your time have been allowed to get away with murder.
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In those days people throughout the organization often got away with murder.
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Sorcerer thought he could get away with murder.
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They get away with murder because of their buying power.
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When we played them last week, the officials let Erik Williams get away with murder.
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Where are these men when, as you say, there are men literally getting away with murder?
get away with murder
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But the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is angry that some other local authorities are letting agents get away with murder .
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He can get away with anything, he could get away with murder and my mom would still love him.
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I think the women of your time have been allowed to get away with murder .
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In those days people throughout the organization often got away with murder .
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Sorcerer thought he could get away with murder .
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They get away with murder because of their buying power.
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When we played them last week, the officials let Erik Williams get away with murder .
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Where are these men when, as you say, there are men literally getting away with murder ?
get away!
get away/off scot-free
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The father, be he absentee or abusive, gets off scot-free .
give the game away
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Don't mention Dad's birthday or you'll give the game away.
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Anyway, the number plate gives the game away.
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But Mr Penrice had given the game away.
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Cats merely have the instinct not to give the game away by revealing all that they are aware of.
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Certain anatomical shapes such as legs, arms, necks, feet or wings tend to give the game away.
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Not, of course, that there is much to give the game away.
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She had nearly given the game away there.
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They saw the mistake-prone Cavs almost give the game away.
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Unfortunately, Godwin's illustrative examples give the game away.
have it off/away with sb
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Also I don't want him to try to have it off with some one else.
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Dave Mellor did not have it away with that repellent tart.
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Rush round here every Wednesday afternoon, have it off with Angy and rush back.
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Was I going to have it off with this woman and a couple of goats?
lock yourself away
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At other times he suffers periods of deep depression when he locks himself away and will speak to no-one for weeks.
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He ought to lock himself away from them.
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If Eisen was actually in New York, she had an added reason for locking herself away.
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It got to the stage where she would lock herself away and not talk to me, or else have endless arguments.
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Morrissey, in particular, would lock himself away behind a shield of management statements and subsequent verbal minders.
put sb away
put sth ↔ away
put sth ↔ away
put sth ↔ away
put sth ↔ away
put sth ↔ away
run away with the idea/impression (that)
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But don't run away with the idea it was all Jerusalem the Golden.
run away with you
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I can't let my emotions run away with me.
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All right, my tongue ran away with me.
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But this time I really think his imagination has run away with him.
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He had let his imagination run away with him.
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His tongue and his ideas for altering performances often ran away with him.
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Newport looked poised to run away with it, but Bridgend refused to cave in.
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She had obviously enticed Patrick to run away with her - were they sleeping together, she wondered briefly?
shut yourself away
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She shut herself away in her room to work on her novel.
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Adolph wouldn't want you shutting yourself away.
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And others were so deeply affected that they withdrew from the community, shutting themselves away in their homes.
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From there he moved on to Edinburgh, and finally shut himself away in his much embellished palace of Falkland to die.
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Not a good idea to shut yourself away like this once you got a bit older, thought Meredith.
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She should never have shut herself away in that dreadful place.
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You could shut yourself away in this garret all day and never come down.
straight away
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But Bokassa's family want to open the palace straight away.
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He didn't answer straight away.
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Loosen the pudding and turn it out to serve straight away.
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Please send your gift straight away.
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Unfortunately I couldn't get out here straight away.
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Unmould on to a hot plate and serve straight away.
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We can also cancel this policy straight away if you do not pay the premium or any instalment of the premium.
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Windeler came in straight away, Hennessy a moment after.
sweep sb away
sweep sth ↔ away
take sb's breath away
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And if they don't take your breath away the scenery certainly will.
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Just a white-hot bonding with the words and feelings in the song, a raw purity that will take your breath away.
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Middle Earth took your breath away.
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She had taken his breath away when she appeared at the door.
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Some of it was charmingly primitive, some of it so exotically painted it took your breath away.
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The smoke took your breath away.
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The volatility of the top performers can take your breath away.
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There are sunsets in huge skies to take your breath away.
take your breath away
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The view from the overlook will take your breath away.
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And if they don't take your breath away the scenery certainly will.
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His arrogance almost took her breath away.
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She had taken his breath away when she appeared at the door.
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Some of it was charmingly primitive, some of it so exotically painted it took your breath away.
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The audacity of it takes my breath away, the nerve of the man.
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The volatility of the top performers can take your breath away.
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This time it was not Ana who took her breath away.
the one that got away
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Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
to take away
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Do you want that hamburger to eat here or to take away?
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And to give loss a reason is to take away hope.
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Employee advocates argue that the policies are an insidious way for companies to take away statutory rights that Congress granted workers.
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He was going to take away my friends.
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The clothes were actually going to take away from the scene.
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These are the things we believe in - the things they are trying to take away.
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They propose to take away the courts' most important sanction - the power to take over a union's assets.
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While Carradine slept, I tried to take away the taste of defeat and Kelly's coffee with a shot or fourteen.
turn (sb) away from sb/sth
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Frustration mounting, attention turned toward altercations away from the play.
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He knew exactly what he wanted and he had no intention of having anybody turn him away from his big ideals.
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I turn slightly away from her and count the balance of Haysoos's bills.
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I turned abruptly away from them, but I was now very low, heading for a stand of trees.
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Instead he slowed down even more and turned farther away from our course.
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Maxine says, turning her attention away from me.
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We will not let our anger turn us away from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East.
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What could have poisoned past happiness and turned its course away from our future?
turn sb ↔ away
turn sb ↔ away
two/three etc doors away/down/up
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Across the world, or two doors down the corridor.
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Freda Berkeley misses her and another neighbour, the writer Patrick Kinross, who lived two doors away.
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He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.
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He tried the house opposite, and was told two doors down.
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I took the keenest pleasure in expelling Phetlock from my old office, two doors down from the Oval.
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Mr Potts and the matrons left them in the church and went to stay two doors away, in a hotel.
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The guest room's two doors down the corridor.
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The second was in another bin beside the Argos showroom two doors away.
when the cat's away (the mice will play)
while away the hours/evening/days etc
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Let's while away the hours swapping stories.
wish your life away
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Such pessimists are wishing their life away.
wrench yourself away/free
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Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away.
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Claws snagged on the photographer's clothing, but he managed to wrench himself away.
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Without you white birds would wrench themselves free from my paintings and fly off dripping blood into the night.
your tongue runs away with you
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the water had boiled away .
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He's been working away on the deck all afternoon.
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He was standing three metres away from the bomb when it exploded.
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I'm sorry, Mrs. Parker is away this week.
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Put all your toys away now, please.
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The car quickly drove away .
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The Cubs are away in Los Angeles this week.
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The nearest village was about 20 miles away .
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The station is about two miles away from the city centre.
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The young lovers danced the night away .
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Toronto's only about an hour and a half away by car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And then, just as I was reaching for my battered copy of Einstein, Jon Snow gave away the secret.
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At times, Alvin turned away .
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But Thieu Tri declined to bargain and left Percival no choice but to free the dignitaries and sail away .
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He hurled himself away and tried to climb out.
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He tasted warm wetness on his tongue and touched his lip and took away a bloodied finger.
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Rose did it well; she was just young enough to get away with it.
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The heater had been adjusted to give a temperature of 76°F, and the filter was bubbling away nicely.
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Zanger said he retorted that he needed his glasses to drive away .
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
game
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His side have stumbled recently at home but have won their last seven away games .
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The road was unforgiving, dealing the Lakers a whopping 10 losses in the first 13 away games .
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We never get to train there - it's just like playing an away game .
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I love going to away games .
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Boro began with a 4-5-1 formation which has been successful in recent away games .
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The card is too expensive on the off-chance I could get in an away game during the season.
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I find it strange that a new name is mentioned despite the fact that we've just won two away games .
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Another innovation connected with transport was for travel to away games .
games
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His side have stumbled recently at home but have won their last seven away games .
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The road was unforgiving, dealing the Lakers a whopping 10 losses in the first 13 away games .
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Boro began with a 4-5-1 formation which has been successful in recent away games .
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I love going to away games .
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I find it strange that a new name is mentioned despite the fact that we've just won two away games .
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Another innovation connected with transport was for travel to away games .
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Popular away games will be members only, others will be open to one and all.
goal
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Wolves, unbeaten in seven games, had not conceded an away goal .
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Outstanding Spartak have proved themselves the masters of away goals and just one tonight will seriously jeopardise Liverpool's hopes.
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Antwerp took the tie on the away goals rule, the first leg having ended in a goal-less draw.
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Add to that a £60 bonus for each away goal and Glenavon left Clandeboye £1,360 richer.
match
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A service bus, number 58, will get you to Gosling for our last away match of the season.
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He remembers a training session in Hyde Park when Boro were in London for an away match .
record
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Plymouth have an appalling away record but they must be buoyant after their Roker Park win.
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They've got the best away record in the second division.
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Darlington had only eight wins in 31 League games, with the worst defensive away record in the four divisions.
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Last Saturday's exhibition against Hull City, a side with a pitiful away record , was inept and occasionally heartless.
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United have the worst away record in the table; 2 wins in 12.
tie
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Anglesey Aluminium knocked out former cup winners Amlwch winning their away tie by 23 runs.
victory
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Swindon are long overdue an away victory .
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Maybe he responds by pulling his car away Victory !
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On this performance Leeds should record a few more away victories e.g. Swindon.
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Last weekend Llandovery added a notable scalp to their belt with an away victory at Muirfield, 15-20.
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As for Chelsea, Wise reckons they are inching ever closer to that elusive away victory .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And so was the silence when, in the third minute, a cracking volley put the away side in command.
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I love going to away games.
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Plymouth have an appalling away record but they must be buoyant after their Roker Park win.
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The road was unforgiving, dealing the Lakers a whopping 10 losses in the first 13 away games.
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Wolves, unbeaten in seven games, had not conceded an away goal.