Example sentences of "[verb] away the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A searing fire of elation bathed him suddenly , driving away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 2 | Welcoming Lenin 's New Economic Policy , he expressed the hope that the development of Anglo-Soviet trade would persuade Russia to ‘ throw away the last shreds of Bolshevism and Communism by which it is at present fettered . ’ |
| 3 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |
| 4 | They were underlined by Labour 's Defence Review of 1974–5 which committed Britain 's ground forces solely to the defending of continental Europe , and stripped away the last fragments of the country 's global pretensions . |
| 5 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 6 | But remove them carefully with tissues , and use a non-alcoholic gentle freshener on cotton wool as a ‘ rinse ’ to wipe away the last traces . |
| 7 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 8 | Wiping away the first drop , which might be contaminated by perspiration , she waited until a second drop formed , then pressed her finger on to the chemically treated reagent strip . |
| 9 | That 's because 90 's intensive agriculture and the developer 's bulldozer are rather effective at wiping away the last finger-prints of the all too impermanent way . |
| 10 | It has swept away the last remnants of the Stasi system , but in the process dirtied millions of Germans and the feelings their fellows have for them . |
| 11 | ‘ We wo n't be in a hurry to get away the next time , will we ? |
| 12 | The Conservative party has never been the party of law and order , and during this Parliament it has thrown away the last vestiges of any claim to such a title . |
| 13 | Edith , the parlourmaid , cleared away the first course . |
| 14 | The stage-curtains folded away the first half of the show to the accompaniment of enthusiastic applause . |
| 15 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 16 | Open the file , throw away the first line ( LIST " nnn " ) , read the line to be edited and close the file . |
| 17 | Allow it to wash away the last traces of your old payoff or negative belief . |
| 18 | She is clearing away the last glasses from the vigil , and when I come into her living room she has a cloth in her hand . |
| 19 | Some were lying on charpoys , snoozing away the last minutes before their first meal for thirteen hours . |