Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] away [art] [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 threw away the guava core , and it too was torn to pieces by the children . |
| 3 | After drinking a mug of tea , I packed away the tent and set off , watching the trees float nearer as the pale sun thawed the earth . |
| 4 | I frittered away the morning and then got Armstrong wound up and headed towards the West End . |
| 5 | I backed away a couple of paces . |
| 6 | She wiped away a tear that had crept unnoticed on to her cheek . |
| 7 | He smiled and lifted his champagne glass to his lips and Ruth expected some sort of challenge thrown out but none came and a strange feeling percolated inside her , almost disappointment , but she shooed away the notion . |
| 8 | She threw away the explanation , as if she knew he did n't really need it . |
| 9 | ‘ The fact was that you needed help to sort out your house the other day , yet you turned away the team of cleaners I hired , and why ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 12 | She brushed away the dullness that settled itself on her whenever she thought too hard about his death , about the way he had chosen to live parts of his life , the worries that had been there within her , deep below the surface , and forced herself to concentrate on finding the right numbered exit to this magnificent part of Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | She brushed away the tear that she 'd been totally unaware was slowly trickling down her face . |
| 14 | Claudia 's smile vanished and she blinked away a tear at the thought of the poor farmers who had been so misunderstood . |
| 15 | She blinked away a tear and nodded . |
| 16 | She took away the tray . |
| 17 | She burst into tears and Morse walked diffidently over to the settee , where he temporarily displaced the teddy-bear , put his right arm along her shoulder , and held her to him as she sobbed away the storm . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She tore away the tissue paper and threw the dresses over the sofa . |
| 20 | She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley . |
| 21 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 22 | As she cleared away the tray , Stanley picked up a newspaper and started to read . |
| 23 | ‘ Was that in Poland ? ’ she repeated as she cleared away the food . |
| 24 | To his chagrin we threw away the letter about a skiing holiday . |
| 25 | But we threw away the lead four times . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That night , they dug away the earth and drew the nails from the planks and removed the great bars that had closed all the formal entrances into the city , and completed the bridging of the ditch that led to the land gate . |
| 28 | They blew away the chauffeur 's head with a machine gun . |
| 29 | Donald , Pringle , Snell and McMillan all looked healthily hostile as they blew away the cream of Australian batting for under 200 , and Hudson showed touches of class as South Africa won by nine wickets . |
| 30 | They took away the telephone after Gran tried to telephone Buckingham Palace to complain to the Queen . ’ |