Example sentences of "[vb pp] away a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish defender was furious when he was judged to have given away a late penalty for tripping Andy Sinton . |
| 2 | With minds on absent players 'Mere started cold and were lucky not to have given away a large margin within the first few minutes . |
| 3 | Many of the Minpins who had flown away a short while before were now returning on their birds . |
| 4 | He sighed , and softly wiped away a single tear with the tip of his finger . |
| 5 | ‘ Smaointe ’ or ‘ thoughts ’ was inspired by the story of the beach at Margallen , where a great wave once swept away a small church and all that were in it . |
| 6 | They chose a point at which the bank reached steeply down to a pool , a slight bend in the course having eaten away a miniature beach on the far side . |
| 7 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 8 | They were painted over , but someone had scraped away a small area of paint , exposing the clear glass . |
| 9 | For the second week in succession , Spurs ' dodgy defence had thrown away a 2-0 lead . |
| 10 | But furious Tories say the authority could have thrown away a golden opportunity . |
| 11 | Once again the Democratic party may have thrown away a historic opportunity to retake the White House . |
| 12 | Certainly the general belief was that , having wantonly thrown away a Conservative majority , Baldwin could not remain as Party leader let alone Prime Minister ; and Randolph Churchill , the biographer of Lord Derby , comments that ‘ It is interesting to notice in Derby 's correspondence , and in that of other leading Tories of the time , how for the first two or three weeks after the Party 's defeat in the Election there was an unchallenged assumption that Baldwin could not survive the catastrophe . ’ |
| 13 | Still , he enjoyed the chairmanship and gets very cross if anyone suggests that it would have been difficult for anyone to have thrown away a Tory victory in post-Falklands Britain with a Labour Party led by Michael Foot . |
| 14 | Instead of the sunset raging a fire in them as Fernando had obviously intended , it had had the reverse effect — doused away a good deal of bitterness and left them with a certain sadness . |
| 15 | When he jumped down some twenty minutes later , I found he had chewed away a large portion of my cashmere sweater . |
| 16 | Steve O'Shaughnessy weakly headed away a left wing cross to Lee Duxbury who powered a shot goalwards . |
| 17 | Steve O'Shaughnessy weakly headed away a left wing cross to Lee Duxbury who powered a shot goalwards . |