Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] away a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd cleared away a lot of last autumn 's leaves . |
| 2 | While waiting he brought out a penknife and began whittling away a table-top . |
| 3 | It 's such a great book we decided to give away a copy to every new subscriber to Outdoor Action . |
| 4 | ‘ I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River . |
| 5 | We did win away a couple of times ( one was a 4–1 win at the high flying aston villa ! ) . |
| 6 | She did go away a lot but normally told somebody first so it was odd . |
| 7 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 8 | She knew that , without meaning to , she had given away a lot of her life and thought , and wished she had not . |
| 9 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
| 10 | Apparently , an unseasonable deluge had washed away a section of river bank , exposing the perfectly preserved carcass of a woolly mammoth . |
| 11 | But Anton Rogan scored his first goal for the club with a perfectly-hit volley from the edge of the box in the 31st minute after goalkeeper Digweed had punched away a corner from a jaded-looking Atkinson . |
| 12 | Gordon Brunt and his friends had taken away a wall without putting in the proper structural support , so the whole of the left side of Château Quigley had collapsed . |