Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] away the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 2 | The police decided that the murderer had carried away the other half . |
| 3 | By the reign of Elizabeth , if not before , the laity had prised away the clerical grip upon the governmental machine : it was to be disastrously , but only briefly , restored in part during the reign of Charles I. |
| 4 | The heat had burnt away the coloured insulation so he had no way of telling what functions they governed . |
| 5 | He remembered the release he had felt when he had first heard the teachings of Akhenaten , which had cut away the rotten trappings of the old beliefs , festooned as they were with the cynical speculation of the priests . |
| 6 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 7 | Then while the Sassanian dynasty was emerging in its turn , following the Parthians who had swept away the Seleucid regime that ruled both Mesopotamia and the lands farther east after the break-up of Alexander 's vast empire in the fourth century BC , the scene was set for the emergence of Islam . |
| 8 | The two men had burned away the safe door which Joyce said had taken three hours . |