Example sentences of "away [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mihal beat away the burning logs with his club while Martin rushed in and picked up the old man . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Administration of Justice Act 1982 swept away the remaining ones without putting anything in their place . |
| 6 | His attack is therefore two-pronged : to argue that there are far fewer genuine universals than had been thought , and to explain away the remaining ones in ways more plausible than Chomsky 's . |
| 7 | She felt the sickness growing , welling hard and hot in her stomach , but not hot enough to completely burn away the lingering echoes of passion , and she was filled with shame . |
| 8 | Cut away the existing tiles with a broad-bladed steel chisel ( bolster ) and club hammer . |
| 9 | There , as a mid-wife explains , he is standing on his head , whiling away the long hours of labour with yoga practice . |
| 10 | My own mind seemed full of memories already and I could n't imagine storing away the new ones as years and years went by . |
| 11 | More than 100 are on duty to keep an eye on the 2,000 clubgoers who nightly dance or drink away the small hours from 11pm to 6am . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In a series of constitutional amendments sweeping away the formal vestiges of Stalinism , the Sejm ( lower house ) also restored the pre-war name Republic of Poland and returned the traditional crown to the official Polish emblem , the white eagle . |
| 14 | The beautiful thirteenth-century Eleanor Cross was hacked to pieces and James Hissey in Over Fen and Wold of 1898 says ‘ Shame to those savages of the Great Rebellion who swept away the very foundations of it . ’ |
| 15 | Better , she believed , to while away the leaden hours until evening by talking again to three people . |
| 16 | The world 's Jeanne Dixons have , for example , to explain away the numerous warnings about contacting the dead ( Leviticus 19:31 : 20:6,7 & 27 , ; Deuteronomy 18:10,11 ; 1 Samuel 28:7,8 ; 2 Kings 23:24 and others ) . |
| 17 | Asmodeus shook away the clinging remains of good old Bill . |
| 18 | Winter winds wipe away the natural oils of the exposed skin , to leave a red , raw and chapped appearance . |
| 19 | Then , a new epoch of history is born which sweeps away the social relationships of the old order . |
| 20 | Darkness crawled through the suburbs like a flood of black ink , washing away the empty shells of uninteresting houses . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Britain and Europe must seize the opportunity that Gorbachev has helped to create , to negotiate away the military blocs of Nato and Warsaw Pact , get rid of nuclear weapons and cut the arms budget . |
| 23 | The hurricane of the Word tears away the flimsy structures of our pretensions , the altars of our false gods , the artificial securities to which we love to cling , all that Paul describes as ‘ the righteousness of the Law ’ . |
| 24 | It seduces me to kiss away the harsh words from your lips , to feel your mouth soften and tremble beneath mine . ’ |
| 25 | Costings of domestic expenditures in industrial countries on reducing emissions tend to brush away the minor irrelevancies of the millions and concentrate on refining estimates to the nearest billion . |
| 26 | He lay on the goose feathers , looking at the beams , feeling the soft pelting rain massage away the binding layers of ambition , lust , wickedness , pain , revenge … |
| 27 | Guiltily he wiped away the girlish tear-stains with the back of his hand . |
| 28 | She kicked away the heavy limbs of the man who was sharing her bed , at the same time dislodging a grey cat from the bed 's foot . |
| 29 | It has swept away the last remnants of the Stasi system , but in the process dirtied millions of Germans and the feelings their fellows have for them . |
| 30 | Welcoming Lenin 's New Economic Policy , he expressed the hope that the development of Anglo-Soviet trade would persuade Russia to ‘ throw away the last shreds of Bolshevism and Communism by which it is at present fettered . ’ |