Example sentences of "[verb] away [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled , and her heart beat away the seconds , tick-tock , tick-tock , tick-tock . |
| 2 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 3 | ‘ Yup , ’ said Lucy , nearly thirty years on , lighting a cigarette , tossing away a cloud of smoke with the word . |
| 4 | SUPERMAN artist Joe Shuster , who lost millions by signing away the rights to the comic book hero he helped create , has died in Los Angeles aged 78 . |
| 5 | Planes ca n't take off without the rigger there to pull away the chocks . |
| 6 | Bend the ‘ handle ’ down to pull away the cutting with a heel . |
| 7 | And as he tells the story of one Irish politician who was emblematic of the past — Fianna Fáil TD Sean Doherty — he strips away the layers of fiction and delusion underpinning both Doherty and his critics to touch the pulse of an Ireland distorted by the rhetoric of the newsroom and debating chamber . |
| 8 | Altman strips away the pretence and mythology to expose the film industry as precisely that ; a business like any other , dedicated to the pursuit of profit . |
| 9 | The softly spoken threat cut through the haze fogging her brain and she sat bolt upright , knocking away the hand that had been caressing her into submission almost without her realising it . |
| 10 | Rose was intent on laughing away the incongruity of the situation . |
| 11 | We did win away a couple of times ( one was a 4–1 win at the high flying aston villa ! ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Send away the ark of the God of Israel , ’ the people cry , ‘ and let it return to its own place , that it may not slay us and our people ’ ( 5.11 ) . |
| 13 | He was pursued and caught , and would appear at Southend Magistrates ' Court charged with taking and driving away a Jaguar car without the owner 's consent from the Foulness road on Saturday afternoon . |
| 14 | If death could steal away a daughter , why not a son as well ? |
| 15 | But of fat fairies bearing hot sweet tea there was never a sign and the fingers of the station clock jerked away the minutes with maddening languor , the tedium of their watch being broken only by the intermittent arrivals and departure of train . |
| 16 | That sudden movement , slight as it was , jerked away the stone which Chignell had placed behind one of the wheels . |
| 17 | Peel away the backing paper to expose about 300mm of adhesive |
| 18 | Peel away the ridges but if it 's young , leave on some green ; if older , peel the skin . |
| 19 | It had taken only a little practice to discover how to lie there , flat on her back , and slowly , with great care , peel away the roof beam and open back the two vast panes of glass . |
| 20 | Then carefully peel away the lining paper from the bottom of the roulade . |
| 21 | Cut into quarters , then peel away the rind . |
| 22 | I think she 's getting carried away a bit there . |
| 23 | They were further charged with stealing a motor-cycle combination on which they are said to have carried away the safe . |
| 24 | Travis swore and bent down , stripping away the blankets and lifting her into his arms without any effort at all . |
| 25 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 26 | Daybreak tended to steal up gently on the valley , reinventing a fresh landscape out of the leftover mists of the night ; lake breezes would then strip away the shrouds one by one to uncover the forests and the shores and the mountains behind . |
| 27 | A built-up surround will have to be dismantled piece by piece , but with the other types , you can chop away the plaster just next to the surround until you find the brackets , after which the screws can be undone ( or the brackets sawn through ) and the fireplace surround levered away from the wall with a crowbar . |
| 28 | It would soothe away the worries that ached in his head , even on this hazy gold morning of early September , with a fine harvest coming and plenty of work for the young men in the new town . |
| 29 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
| 30 | The people who lived here moved away a couple of years ago , so I was told . |