Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] away the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a distant whistle from behind Chernayev 's teeth as if he tried to blow away the wind that settled on him . |
| 2 | He stopped to wipe away the excrement , which blinded his eyes and coated his lips . |
| 3 | Blagg told me he 'd thrown away the revolver that woman gave him . |
| 4 | There 's , we , we 've been struggling and trying to do ourselves and all we have to do is to allow Christ to come in to our lives , because he died to take away the sin , he dealt with the route cause of it , Christ in you , the hope of glory . |
| 5 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 6 | Bruce , a second-hand dealer for 15 years , said he had taken away the items in a van but returned the next day because he wanted to buy a chest of drawers . |
| 7 | He had put away the Morning Star , and was contentedly butchering a copy of that morning 's Guardian with a pair of scissors . |
| 8 | He had put away the letter , somewhere inside his ample tunic . |
| 9 | Enescu 's Romanian Rhapsodies hung like albatrosses around his alter career , their popularity overshadowing the far more original music he was composing by then ; and to add injury to insult , he had signed away the royalties . |