Example sentences of "[vb past] away the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mihal beat away the burning logs with his club while Martin rushed in and picked up the old man . |
| 2 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
| 3 | Guiltily he wiped away the girlish tear-stains with the back of his hand . |
| 4 | The voice which Lewis had earlier thought well under control now wavered slightly , and with her handkerchief she quickly wiped away the light film of sweat that had formed on her upper lip . |
| 5 | The picture was clearly in her head , but it brought none of the old bitterness , because now she was seeing Alain , imagining him , and it wiped away the old grief . |
| 6 | But they wiped away the national disgrace of Wednesday 's defeat to America 's soccer novices by outfighting one of the favourites to win next year 's World Cup here in the States . |
| 7 | As the flow increased , the water nibbled away the downstream face of the hundred yards of landfall that had originally forced the river westward into the Makaa . |
| 8 | Chesarynth remembered her sister 's stories of the lowest levels at Nutristem where subliminals ate away the whole shift from your mind . |
| 9 | The women were only half-dressed and clutched rags in a pitiful attempt to cover themselves , but a grinning mercenary ripped away the scant tatters of one girl to send her sprawling nude on the cobbles . |
| 10 | He threw away the useless handle , collapsed on the linoleum and started scrabbling at his clothes with pawlike hands . |
| 11 | Asmodeus shook away the clinging remains of good old Bill . |
| 12 | Awkwardly and delicately , as if her own arms and hands were unfamiliar tools , she gathered flowerpots on a cleared area of ledge , took a bucket outside and poured away the green standing slime . |
| 13 | She stripped away the outer shell brick by brick , and massaged the essence of the structure , fashioning a gothic cathedral . |
| 14 | Jessamyn lay flat on the contoured table as the Doc sliced away the facial bandages , still relaxed from the morph-plus shots she had been taking every day . |
| 15 | San Marino scrambled away the resulting corner at the cost of a second flag kick from which England snatched the lead . |
| 16 | On 16 November Edward was captured and four days later Orleton , with the earl of Leicester , took away the great seal . |
| 17 | It took away the normal drudgery of long flights with little radio contact and constant headings . |
| 18 | A vehicle recovery man who took away the wrecked Maestro car said : ‘ There was hardly anything left — just the number plate and part of the bumper . ’ |
| 19 | The war took away the unfortunate necessity , as Unionists saw it , to play with fire in the national interest , but it did not materially alter their view of themselves . |
| 20 | When Theseus took away the slain Minotaur 's head , did the Cretans barbecue the rest ? |
| 21 | Police took away the crazed driver . |
| 22 | But er it certainly did a lot for the bakers but as I said it certainly took away the happy family union that we had before . |
| 23 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 24 | Stair was Alastair , Neil 's older and only brother , and was usually called ‘ poor Stair ’ because he had drunk , gambled and wenched away the small remains of the Cochrane estate , most of which his father had already dissipated before him . |
| 25 | With a series of dull thuds and strangely intimate bumps the unloading began , punctuated by more of the raucous , inhuman whistles which finally blew away the remaining shreds of doubt in Zen 's mind about the reality of the kidnapping . |
| 26 | The grooms and novices led away the horses , and wheeled away the light carriage into the grange court for housing . |
| 27 | With a groan that seemed to come from the bottom of the earth , Luke reached down and tore away the lacy silk that covered her . |
| 28 | First , they cleared away the living grasses that valiantly pushed at the surface and then the dried stuff from the previous year . |
| 29 | Thankfully , she cleared away the horrid masks . |
| 30 | Pallister was responsible for one goal and Ince gave away the free kick for the other . |