Example sentences of "can [vb infin] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are fortunate enough to have a lower level into which you can siphon away the water , that is the easiest . |
| 2 | she can stay away she can come , come round |
| 3 | You may find that you sleep better than before ( and can throw away any sleeping pills you may have been taking ) , that you have got rid of that nagging headache or that the muscles in your neck and shoulders suddenly feel warm and relaxed . |
| 4 | You see mammals can chew and reptiles ca n't , erm we can chump away , you know ? erm and let me just list some of the changes that took place which help us to chew . |
| 5 | If you are heavily laden with treasure you might only manage a couple of swings of the sword before you have to rest , during which time your opponent can batter away at you ! ) |
| 6 | A built-up surround will have to be dismantled piece by piece , but with the other types , you can chop away the plaster just next to the surround until you find the brackets , after which the screws can be undone ( or the brackets sawn through ) and the fireplace surround levered away from the wall with a crowbar . |
| 7 | There 's nothing in here I can chuck away . |
| 8 | Those generous people at Trantec have told us we can give away the very S1000 we reviewed a couple of months back , and we do n't need telling twice … |
| 9 | Courageous in taking on the over-spending bogey that did such havoc in 1987 , it nevertheless opened the floodgates to a fortnight of ‘ we can give away more tax than you ’ , and exchanges between the two parties of a staggering triviality that effectively supplanted any wider debate about the economy . |
| 10 | It can give away too much profit . |
| 11 | can give away . |
| 12 | So you can give away more than they , they gi than they pay you ? |
| 13 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 14 | The professional criminal and his accomplices are determined characters : they live off crime , and take as much as they can carry away . |
| 15 | The moral of this tale you can carry away at the end of my story of two Corbetts . |
| 16 | You can send away the chaplain , and turn the house upside-down . |
| 17 | But Patrick has proved he can break away from his Mr Menacing image . |
| 18 | so you can do away with an with your big ovens . |
| 19 | I always start with the eyes , because it gives the moisturiser a chance to sink in , and it also means I can wipe away any spills without reapplying foundation . ’ |
| 20 | None of us can remember everyone we 've met , everything we 've done , and yet most can store away in their memory the things that we want to remember . |
| 21 | It 's actually best if you can keep away from the dip altogether , and concentrate on the fresh bite of the unadulterated vegetables ! |
| 22 | Guard against the harmful effects of extreme weather by watering plants before drought becomes critical , and making sure excessive rainfall can drain away freely . |
| 23 | STUDENTS on a part-time MSc computer course to start next year at Kingston Polytechnic will get their own microcomputers so that they can work away from the polytechnic 's classrooms . |
| 24 | The strange fact that the professional practitioners of quantum mechanics can calculate away without worrying about the outcome of the debates about the foundations of their subject is only possible because there is a well-defined set of rules about how to set up the problems and how to do the sums . |
| 25 | Not one of us can look away . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm planning to show them how a nome can run away with speed . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We can run away , ’ I said . |
| 28 | If they too much caution , then erm , if they advise too little caution , then then things can run away with themselves . |
| 29 | Cheaper bags often have small thin baffles which can flatten away from the zip or none at all . |
| 30 | It reveals how close U2 can come to being a straightforward rock group — one of those ! — and simultaneously how far they can move away from that . |