Example sentences of "[noun] to take away the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , yes , I would be prepared to resist any kind of armed attempt to take away the liberty which I have to determine my own way in the future . ’ |
| 2 | This is what I 'll do — an injection to take away the pain and reduce the bruising and a few tablets for you to give today and tomorrow . |
| 3 | Suspended in a harness against a spiralling screen , he asks a hypnotherapist to take away the pain of loving someone who does not love him : to detox him . |
| 4 | But the charge of a conspiracy among philosophers and theologians to take away the toys and joys of faith will not stick . |
| 5 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 6 | ‘ The aim would be a semi-humorous approach to take away the image of the Church as boring . |
| 7 | Labour 's Derek Foster said he would lobby Agriculture Minister John Gummer to overturn a decision by the Intervention Board to take away the licence for certifying steers castrated bulls . |
| 8 | Then you have a drug to take away the pain of the drug that is killing the cancer cells which unfortunately makes you sick and then they give you something to try to reduce that sickness , so you have one battling the other , battling the other . |
| 9 | But the thieves had eccentric tastes — they stole two goldfish , her cascading waterfall , a stone ornamental duck and a stone toadstool — plus a bucket to take away the fish . |
| 10 | If you use a fuel-burning boiler or water heater to provide your water heating , this must be fitted with a proper flue to take away the products of combustion . |
| 11 | Camille walked down a sleazy stretch of road , where half the shops were closing as the developers quadrupled the rents , and bought herself an ice-cream to take away the taste of margaritas : it was already midday , so she had only an hour or two before she could go home , claiming that her games lesson had been cancelled because someone had felled the netball posts . |