Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] away [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 2 | Thus began a 30 minute gag-telling session , doctor gags , hospital gags and funeral gags , until we 'd laughed away the atmosphere . |
| 3 | Blagg told me he 'd thrown away the revolver that woman gave him . |
| 4 | He 'd cleared away a lot of last autumn 's leaves . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 7 | Ruth wondered how Maria Luisa had explained away the baby she had conceived with her ‘ jolly good friend ’ . |
| 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 | She had half expected him to contact her after she had turned away the team of cleaners he 'd sent to her house to clear up the mess , but she had heard nothing . |
| 11 | Her hair was piled at her head , tied in a scarlet bandanna , and when she turned her face to look wanly up at us there were soot-marks on her brow and cheeks where she had wiped away the sweat with the back of her hand . |
| 12 | And it was as though someone had peeled away the skin from her nerve-ends . |
| 13 | Apparently , an unseasonable deluge had washed away a section of river bank , exposing the perfectly preserved carcass of a woolly mammoth . |
| 14 | Seconds after Andrews had dragged away the pilot , the plane exploded , and was reduced to a smouldering wreck . |
| 15 | An absolutely new colour , amazing chestnut , rufous , burning , bleeding , where they had cut away the cork . |
| 16 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
| 17 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 18 | Fielding had waved away the Autocrat , and we idled , considering , the producer in his dove-grey suit , the director in boxy charcoal and troubled flesh . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They had made one album , which had failed , partly , it was felt within the company , because they had thrown away the chance of a prestigious tour , supporting Talking Heads , by their novel plan to simply switch on their machines and tape-recorders and then sit in the auditorium with the audience and watch the show themselves . |
| 21 | Richardson said he could not understand how his men had thrown away the game . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The vote will be seen as a victory for the local authorities , who put so much pressure on the clubs , and many of the delegates were relieved that the vote had taken away the threat of possible punitive action from their local councils . |
| 24 | The PLO , of course , saw its often murderous operations as a sacred duty ; they were fighting the occupying power that had taken away the land of the Palestinians . |
| 25 | I blamed Hilda for it , I felt she had taken away the gamble , the risk that made it worth while . |
| 26 | He had put away the Morning Star , and was contentedly butchering a copy of that morning 's Guardian with a pair of scissors . |
| 27 | He had put away the letter , somewhere inside his ample tunic . |
| 28 | Central to Lydon 's action was the allegation that McLaren had signed away the group 's future record royalties to Virgin in order to finance The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Koogan ? ’ she began , remembering the ‘ former army boxing champion ’ who had shooed away the Sun reporter during one of Puddephat 's previous sallies into the public print . |
| 30 | In reality it was not part of the city at all ; the builders of Kinsai had carved away the plateau and slotted the massive stones of the defences into place around the old structure so that the marvellous symmetry of the circular layout would not be interrupted . |