Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to reveal the " in BNC.
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1 | The once gleaming whitewash was dark and smoke-blackened ; in places the plaster had fallen away to reveal the messy rubble-walling beneath . |
2 | Consequently , it mattered little whether the facade was retained or stripped away to reveal the reality behind it . |
3 | The material was pushed aside to reveal the red marks caused by the grip of his fingers . |
4 | A cupboard in the cell was moved aside to reveal the rope and the trap only a few feet away beyond an open door . |
5 | The curtains have been drawn aside to reveal the female subject as she speaks , writes , paints — making and doing , in the original Greek sense of poiein , from which we derive ‘ poet ’ . |
6 | The bulky leaves of ribwort planting were pulled apart to reveal the green leaf stalks . |
7 | The adult response of reason is swept away to reveal the small child cowering under parental wrath . |
8 | I shall examine in this section the means by which different discourses and public texts are ground together to reveal the common structures that underlie them and the common strategies they employ . |