Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] away a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave her a carriage and jewels , in fact I threw away a fortune on her , just like any fool in love . |
| 2 | I backed away a couple of paces . |
| 3 | He yowled as he touched one of the plates , which took away a layer of his skin . |
| 4 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
| 5 | She wiped away a tear that had crept unnoticed on to her cheek . |
| 6 | She walked away a step or two into the frost-sharp wind , then spun back into the lee of the burrow-mouth to face Ember . |
| 7 | Claudia 's smile vanished and she blinked away a tear at the thought of the poor farmers who had been so misunderstood . |
| 8 | She blinked away a tear and nodded . |
| 9 | She looked away a moment , noticing how the fire 's light flickered in the window pane ; how it cast a mottled , ever-changing pattern against the narrow opening . |
| 10 | At the end of the day though , the championship I think , tells you who is the best team of any one year and erm that 's the professional 's choice I think , if you said at the start of the year which = trophy we 'd like to win , we would have said the championship , erm we were top I think after two games and we fell away a bit since but erm the time to be tops after twenty two , so lets hope we can get up there . |
| 11 | Erm but I mean they went away a couple of weeks ago down to where Dave 's brother was buried in Isle of Wight |
| 12 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 13 | As they carried away a pannier of my blood , I felt almost as bad as I pretended to be . |
| 14 | it it got away a bit you know and and |
| 15 | CI winger Jim Cowden will today be ruing his first minute gaffe when he threw away a try by trying to run under the posts . |
| 16 | He went away a lot , with his work , but he 's been back with us for the last year or so , off and on . ’ |
| 17 | He tossed away a cigarette as the two men clasped hands . |
| 18 | He gave away a property two years before his death to a discretionary trust . |
| 19 | Then , leaving his sobbing family at home , he dashed to a soccer match , where he gave away a penalty and cheated his team of a victory . |
| 20 | Fraser Digby was trying to save the day when he gave away a penalty … |
| 21 | Fraser Digby was trying to save the day when he gave away a penalty … |
| 22 | When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes . |
| 23 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |