Example sentences of "[verb] away [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cassowary behaved like the ruffian that he was , tearing away whole clusters of berries and gorging them all at once , champing and crashing among the bushes . |
| 2 | At these words the tiger became wild with fright and , quite forgetting the jackal and the reef knot in their tails , he bolted away full tilt , dragging the jackal behind him . |
| 3 | if you send away fifty tokens . |
| 4 | The Nativity , with Mary and Joseph bowing over a sleeping child ; Christ 's walk through Limbo , driving away black-faced demons with the power of his golden eye . |
| 5 | ‘ And , ’ continued the badger ceremoniously , ‘ I am sure I speak for the entire population in wishing you all the very best in driving away this menace in our midst . |
| 6 | How she longed for the excitement of blasting away slimy aliens . |
| 7 | So many miles south the heat wraps around you , eases into your bones ; your shoulders shrug away that jacket , your toes itch to be free of socks and shoes . |
| 8 | After the war clouds rolled away old arguments about Home Rule were quickly resumed , but the issue of the Welsh Church was easily settled : Lloyd George offered compensation and the Welsh Church was duly disestablished in 1920 with little Unionist complaint . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've got to be careful : they cause lots of trouble , ’ said Manoel , glancing nervously at the groups of patrolling military police and the slate-grey truck used to cart away vagrant minors who spend their days here sniffing glue , bathing in fountains , picking pockets and sleeping rough . |
| 10 | Belt sanders are ideal for stripping away painted surfaces quickly and without effort |
| 11 | And slicing away one part of , transferring the spinal unit , just taking out bits and pieces , is designed to weaken the idea that itself can stand on its own . |
| 12 | Clough 's rock-bottom Forest have not won away all season , Coppell 's second-to-bottom Palace have not tasted victory at home — but both managers can count on one thing … their jobs are safe as houses . |
| 13 | Since the documents are full of the supernatural , the process of enquiry must strip away subsequent accretions . |
| 14 | They only moved away two years ago , to the mainland , and then Mrs Hamilton did the place up for letting . |
| 15 | They moved away two years ago . |
| 16 | He must not only master their content but be prepared to haggle away those items he finds unacceptable in acrimonious negotiations which may last many hours and in which ignorance is ruthlessly exposed . |
| 17 | Someone 's hand had torn away three quarters of the days of the desktop calendar and filled a wastebasket with them , and someone had written girls ' names and telephone numbers on the blotters . |
| 18 | We will examine each of these misconceptions in turn , so that once we have torn away these layers of misunderstanding we can get to the kernel of doubt and see not only its dangers but its value . |
| 19 | Guns are shot into the branches to frighten away evil spirits . |
| 20 | Then those showers dying away er dying away this afternoon for one or two good sunny spells , temperature high today of sixty three degrees fahrenheit . |
| 21 | 1 bag of nuts ( to drive away National Trust squirrels ) |
| 22 | Hards , where seamen may step ashore without muddying their boots , occur where the water velocity is sufficient to carry away fine clays and sands . |
| 23 | Each year I whittle away another ring from it , a nice inversion , I may say , of the new science of dendrochronology . ’ |
| 24 | In this way the therapist can observe and explain away any difficulties the client may have and reinforce the benefits of the technique . |
| 25 | And all because that terrible man got away that night , after he 'd nearly killed Brett . |
| 26 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 27 | One got away last night . |
| 28 | Fluke 's ‘ Joni ’ , a furious homage to Joni Mitchell 's ‘ Big Yellow Taxi ’ , was one of the dance singles that got away last summer . |
| 29 | Jodie Foster offered him respect , helped him laugh away other people 's pretensions . |
| 30 | Then , while it seemed that he was the one who was going to apply the antiseptic — a job she could do quite well herself — he was speeding away any huffiness she felt at that last thought by asking her her name . |