Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] away the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone to soothe away the ache . |
| 2 | Twice they disturbed foxes which had found sunlit corners in which to blink away the daylight , and the smell of fox was almost constantly about them . |
| 3 | Double Gloucester and Red Leicester stand out , but even the common cheddar has a dash of something to take away the paleness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then take the matter of the car jack which , according to Bourke , he smuggled in to Blake who used it to prise away the window bars in order to make his escape from D block . |
| 6 | A light snow was falling and he raised his face to allow the soft flakes to fall on his skin , willing it to wash away the disgust he felt inside . |
| 7 | ‘ He told us to throw away the air strut front suspension — coil springs , telescopic dampers and a lowered roll centre were what we needed . |