Example sentences of "[vb base] away a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first stage of surfacing , only the top of the fuselage will be above water-level — when we cut away a rectangular section over where the bomb is located I want as much water as possible below that section to dissipate the heat of the oxyacetylene torches . |
| 2 | I knew he hoped to take the treasure , cut every honest throat on that island , find and board the Hispaniola at night , and sail away a rich man and a murderer . |
| 3 | Leon , more conscious of his status as guest , put away a fair amount less overtly . |
| 4 | The economics of all such awards are sound : give away a substantial sum of prize money ( preferably the biggest that most seductive word ) , spend a little more on promotion , and , most essential , appoint as judges a judicious mixture of ancient worthies , the current great and good , a television personality or some such , and perhaps a critic or museum man to add some small semblance of probity to the proceedings . |
| 5 | You will , in theory , be able to walk into a dealer 's showroom and drive away a road-ready car without even having to take a spanner to it . |
| 6 | What was not understood was that when you sweep away a feudal society , you do not overnight change the institutions or the casts of thought that have been built up over centuries . |
| 7 | As the population grew land rents soared , multiplying sixfold between Emancipation and the turn of the century , thereby enabling the nobility to cream off and fritter away a huge surplus from peasant labour . |
| 8 | Laze away a long summer day , lulled by the sound of green , white-fringed Atlantic waves , hundreds of miles old , endlessly washing golden sands . |
| 9 | So if I take away a negative number it 's the same as adding . |
| 10 | Add take away a negative number is the same as add the positive number . |
| 11 | If you can afford it , spend two or three days recording your tracks , take away a rough mix and then go back to the studio after a week or so . |
| 12 | If I take away a positive number of course that 's taken as normal take away . |
| 13 | Take away a positive number , well okay we |
| 14 | Add a negative number , this is when I said I 'm going to add minus eight pounds to your money tonight , add a negative number is the same as take away a positive number . |