Example sentences of "or [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power to define and enforce consents is ultimately a power to put people out of business , to deter the introduction of new industry or to drive away going concerns . |
| 2 | Yet even the most productive thoughts and even the bravest of responses to the new dimensions of my predicament could not wholly keep the chill out of my bones or push away the icier gloom from above my head . |
| 3 | The terrified inhabitants are either burned or led away with their hands tied to be held for ransom . |
| 4 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 5 | She refused to flinch , or back away , even though she was uneasily and acutely aware that his broad and mostly naked chest was a few dangerous inches from her own . |
| 6 | Other products and processes pioneered by Vlitos and his team — including the process of turning sugar into alcohol , now widely used in Brazil to power cars , and in Mauritius and Honolulu to light the streets — were sold or given away while T&L persisted with sucralose . |
| 7 | However , many of these dogs have not complied with other sections of the law , such as neutering , and more than 600 are no longer alive — including over 100 puppies which were conceived before the Dangerous Dogs Act came into force , but which were not allowed to be sold or given away after the legislation was introduced . |
| 8 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 9 | There are many volumes un-numbered and many which were numbered seem to have been lost or given away . |
| 10 | Players like keeper David Seaman — who has played for England — Terry Phelan , Tommy Wright , John Sheridan and Dennis Irwin were all sold or given away by Leeds but are now big names at other clubs . |
| 11 | Eddie gray got a team together ( most of them have already been mentioned ) of excellant youngsters and virtualy every one of them was sold or given away for f*** all . |
| 12 | Orthodox accounts , as we have seen , tend to ignore or explain away evidence for variability when it does not have reflexes in present-day RP . |
| 13 | This motive , which became prominent when inquisitorial methods waned and extra-judicial confessions became an important , and in many instances by far the most important , weapon in the prosecution 's armoury , was particularly weighty at a time when the accused could not rebut or explain away the confession by giving evidence on his own behalf . |
| 14 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 15 | All desks had been tidied , and leads without client profile cards attached were locked or hidden away . |
| 16 | Consequently , it mattered little whether the facade was retained or stripped away to reveal the reality behind it . |
| 17 | Several cast sheep were found , lying on their backs while their legs kicked the air helplessly , but after Silas had grabbed their thick wool and jerked them to their feet they also ran , or staggered away , depending upon the length of time they had been cast . |
| 18 | In order to account for women 's lack of autonomy it is not sufficient to think merely in terms of removing a veil , or stripping away the outer layers . |
| 19 | All sample members were to be followed up by the research team ( unless , of course , they died or moved away ) for a period of one year from the date of their referral to the project . |
| 20 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 21 | It was mainly from among those with a principal carer who wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home were to be found ( if one excludes those who died or moved away , and compares place of care for those whose principal carer said initially that he or she preferred home or institutional care the difference between the two groups is significant at the 0.001 level ) . |
| 22 | Of course , most people have left now — either died or moved away . |
| 23 | He 's probably turned his toes up , or moved away . |
| 24 | Some died out or moved away , others survived only in the female line and the lands passed to another family by marriage ( 81 , pp.43–7 ; 83 , p.31 ) . |
| 25 | I knew that the only time I had actually seen them was when I had wiped or picked away my own pus . |
| 26 | They are most frequent in the morning and at night ; in the bedroom , at the dinner table ; with me ; when I try to dress her , get her to eat up her meal , or put away her toys . |
| 27 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 28 | We are so sure of this that we go out confidently into the hills , or sail away in boats armed only with a magnetic compass , certain that it will always point in the same north-south direction , so we can judge our own direction of travel from it . |
| 29 | However , if it is only green in small patches , these should be peeled or cut away during preparation . |
| 30 | In Kingshams Field , the bank was apparently partly levelled or cut away by the mid third century at least , prior to the construction of a stone building with a courtyard to the south . |