Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] away a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave her a carriage and jewels , in fact I threw away a fortune on her , just like any fool in love . |
| 2 | I backed away a couple of paces . |
| 3 | He yowled as he touched one of the plates , which took away a layer of his skin . |
| 4 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
| 5 | Claudia 's smile vanished and she blinked away a tear at the thought of the poor farmers who had been so misunderstood . |
| 6 | Erm but I mean they went away a couple of weeks ago down to where Dave 's brother was buried in Isle of Wight |
| 7 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 8 | As they carried away a pannier of my blood , I felt almost as bad as I pretended to be . |
| 9 | CI winger Jim Cowden will today be ruing his first minute gaffe when he threw away a try by trying to run under the posts . |
| 10 | When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes . |
| 11 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |