Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] away the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I washed away the crushed cockroach stain from my blouse . |
| 2 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
| 3 | She stripped away the outer shell brick by brick , and massaged the essence of the structure , fashioning a gothic cathedral . |
| 4 | She tried joining her mind to the millions of people everywhere glued to screens for this all important match but all she could see was Colm 's pudgy little legs swinging backwards and forwards and the grim look on his face as she washed away the crusted blood . |
| 5 | She swept away the green plastic chairs and bright orange carpet with holes in it that she inherited when she became Bradford 's second woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor two years ago . |
| 6 | As she got into her car , she pushed away the worrying question of what she would do if she found evidence that implicated Veronica in the murder of Hugh Puddephat . |
| 7 | When we pass away the direct line will end . ’ |
| 8 | St Albans is a good example of this type , if we think away the large block of building that lies between the present market place and the street called Chequer Street that lies behind . |
| 9 | But they wiped away the national disgrace of Wednesday 's defeat to America 's soccer novices by outfighting one of the favourites to win next year 's World Cup here in the States . |
| 10 | And so they had met ( it had been so easy , as it happened , for him to sneak away the previous afternoon ) nervously and excitedly outside the main entrance to the University Parks at 2.30 p.m . |
| 11 | But she had an idea , from Cara 's remark about sending a card home , that her sister fully expected her to stay away the whole fortnight as planned . |
| 12 | The picture was clearly in her head , but it brought none of the old bitterness , because now she was seeing Alain , imagining him , and it wiped away the old grief . |
| 13 | He threw away the useless handle , collapsed on the linoleum and started scrabbling at his clothes with pawlike hands . |
| 14 | With all the subtlety of a pub singer he prises away the so-called glamour and reveals a hard world full of sadness , unfulfilled dreams and barren values . |
| 15 | It took away the normal drudgery of long flights with little radio contact and constant headings . |
| 16 | Nothing would weigh more heavily with many Tories than the thought that what above all had led them to throw away the 1992 election was the way the positive values and achievements of the Thatcher years had been allowed , through loss of nerve , to be obscured . |