Example sentences of "been [verb] away [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight . |
| 2 | All these ‘ taints ’ have been boiled away in the good old-fashioned aggro of Oi . |
| 3 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |
| 4 | Any doubts about the wisdom of combining the worlds of Shakespearean tragedy and forensic psychiatry appear to have been blasted away by the recent performances of King Lear , Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet in the special hospital by actors from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 5 | The antique musical instruments had been stowed away in the glass-fronted cabinets . |
| 6 | The fishing nets and the postcards were no longer on display , and the woollens and the charming useless pottery had been packed away for the coming winter and the new season to follow-then they were out of the village , passing through a scattering of newer and less substantial houses and following the narrow lakeside road to Langstone . |
| 7 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |
| 8 | Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches . |
| 9 | His ‘ melancholia ’ , with all its evocative associations for me , no longer exists as a diagnosis — it 's been swept away into the vast , featureless ocean of modern ‘ depression ’ . |
| 10 | Instead of this , the impression was given by ministers that their previous doubts about the Maastricht Treaty had been swept away by the Danish vote . |
| 11 | The track had become a shallow river : the clay had been eaten away from the broken rock and pebble surface , and the front wheel of the motor cycle kicked continuously against the handlebars . |
| 12 | In the sandy soils under General Ripper 's airbase , as in aquifers throughout the agricultural Europe , the ‘ time bomb ’ of nitrate pollution has been ticking away since the 1950s . |
| 13 | There is no point in ransacking the cellar for the finest bottled sunshine that has been put away for the special occasion . |
| 14 | And Melanie knew that she , too , had been put away in the same close airing-cupboard , this grey , tall house . |
| 15 | A total of £1.5 billion a year has been taken away from the unemployed . |
| 16 | The usual area of wood has been dressed away on the upper edge of the body , in the name of player comfort . |
| 17 | The way the beam is reflected from the surface of the disc is of course affected by the presence of the pits , areas where the reflective surface has been burned away during the original encoding process . |