Example sentences of "[to-vb] away the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bend the ‘ handle ’ down to pull away the cutting with a heel . |
| 2 | In old days they put mountain ash berries and a cast horseshoe over the lintel to frighten away the Fairy Folk . |
| 3 | But his presence has failed to frighten away the opposition and 11 runners have stood their ground at the five-day declaration stage . |
| 4 | For hot sun to drive away the chill inside her . |
| 5 | Witnesses describe how the army initially bombards an area of marshes to drive away the population . |
| 6 | The drought had aggravated the effluent problem as the company was forced to rent tankers to carry away the effluent which was an even more costly , though temporary , solution . |
| 7 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 8 | Sheringham crossed low towards the unmarked Clough but the opening disappeared as quickly as it appeared , Schmeichel diving bravely to whip away the ball . |
| 9 | It was left to Karl Marx to strip away the veil of capitalist ideology and reveal the wage system and the ‘ free labour market ’ as nothing more than the domination of one class over another . |
| 10 | Each eye that looks to wear away the glass a little bit . |
| 11 | To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material . |
| 12 | Following the announcement , the government began a news-management campaign designed to talk away the problem . |
| 13 | If this be thought to be disingenuously restrictive , an attempt to define away the opposition , then consider the alternative . |
| 14 | The first is that spring is in the air , so it 's time to dust away the winter cobwebs and treat yourself to a new look ! |
| 15 | On the morning of Tuesday , 3 April 1934 , at 7.40 a.m. , the workers marched into the yard to the skirl of the pipes and began to clean away the rust and the nests of rooks that had appeared in the giant skeleton of the hull as it lay neglected during years of depression . |
| 16 | He used hypnosis in order to suggest away the patient 's symptoms . |
| 17 | Will he confirm that it is our top priority to get back to the basics in education and to sweep away the leftist progressive teaching methods that , having been put to the test , have failed ? |
| 18 | A HOUSING scheme designed to sweep away the desolation of New Brighton 's Victoria Road is expected to start in the New Year . |
| 19 | Essentially what we will see between nineteen forty six and nineteen forty nine is a controlled explosion when the Chinese Communist Party quite systematically and deliberately harnesses this vast pool of discontented humanity and uses it to sweep away the Kuomintang regime . |
| 20 | Whatever the government allows in due course by way of contingency arrangements which it intends to permit in the first instance in personal injury cases , it is unlikely to sweep away the need for Legal Aid . |
| 21 | it was just that her imagination , so strong and enticing , was apt to sweep away the barrier between itself and reality . |
| 22 | I thank the man , a campesino , and pull off my top to wipe away the gob with toilet roll . |
| 23 | Berti Vogts 's team come to Ibrox tomorrow determined to wipe away the memory of an unpleasant recent experience , with a convincing performance against Scotland . |
| 24 | He raised his hand to wipe away the trickle of sweat that ran over the soft stubble on his cheek . |
| 25 | He stopped to wipe away the excrement , which blinded his eyes and coated his lips . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ said Marcus , flinching inwardly at the contact with Pete , wanting to wipe away the touch of his sweaty hand . |
| 27 | It is difficult late in life to put away the past , and start again , but you have all the means at your disposal to make a success of the venture . |
| 28 | She hurried back down to put away the food already in the kitchen , and by the time Penry returned with the last couple of boxes she had a tea-tray waiting , complete with a plate of tempting cakes from the small bakery in Brides Haven . |
| 29 | Dubček therefore calculated that it would be safe to whittle away the censorship of the media , break out of the nomenklatura network and transform the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from a ‘ democratic centralist ’ into a democratic organisation . |
| 30 | If you saw the other films , you wo n't need a gay activist to give away the ending , although the spin on the story here is that the hero is a male cop ( Douglas ) , as opposed to the female lawyers and FBI agents of the earlier movies . |