Example sentences of "[verb] away the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A searing fire of elation bathed him suddenly , driving away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 2 | Welcoming Lenin 's New Economic Policy , he expressed the hope that the development of Anglo-Soviet trade would persuade Russia to ‘ throw away the last shreds of Bolshevism and Communism by which it is at present fettered . ’ |
| 3 | They were underlined by Labour 's Defence Review of 1974–5 which committed Britain 's ground forces solely to the defending of continental Europe , and stripped away the last fragments of the country 's global pretensions . |
| 4 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 5 | That 's because 90 's intensive agriculture and the developer 's bulldozer are rather effective at wiping away the last finger-prints of the all too impermanent way . |
| 6 | It has swept away the last remnants of the Stasi system , but in the process dirtied millions of Germans and the feelings their fellows have for them . |
| 7 | The Conservative party has never been the party of law and order , and during this Parliament it has thrown away the last vestiges of any claim to such a title . |
| 8 | The stage-curtains folded away the first half of the show to the accompaniment of enthusiastic applause . |
| 9 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 10 | Allow it to wash away the last traces of your old payoff or negative belief . |
| 11 | She is clearing away the last glasses from the vigil , and when I come into her living room she has a cloth in her hand . |
| 12 | Some were lying on charpoys , snoozing away the last minutes before their first meal for thirteen hours . |