Example sentences of "and [verb] away the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he took his handkerchief out and wiped away the water that was still dripping from the front of his hair , a voice said , ‘ I would n't drink that if I were you ; the cows wash in it just round the corner . ’ |
| 2 | Willie peered in the window and wiped away the mist his breath was making on the glass . |
| 3 | The librarian fetched a checked duster , and wiped away the dust , a black , thick , tenacious Victorian dust , a dust composed of smoke and fog particles accumulated before the Clean Air Acts . |
| 4 | Etching — dip a cocktail stick in lemon juice or vinegar and scratch away the colour when the dyed egg is cold . |
| 5 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 6 | Get your priorities right and whittle away the non-essentials . |
| 7 | There are many arthropods associated with human disease , ranging from the larvae of certain flies such as the ‘ Congo maggot ’ which are obligatory tissue parasites and eat away the flesh of an infested person , to the scorpion whose sting can cause serious illness and in some cases , particularly children , even death . |
| 8 | What I 'd say to you is , do n't mess up and throw away the opportunity you 've been given , because if you do you 'll only have yourself to blame . |
| 9 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 10 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 11 | With the head on its side make a series of cuts straight in with the corner chisel along the curve of the cheek , and cut away the waste on the neck side of the line . |
| 12 | Why do n't you have a shower and wash away the dreams of the night . |
| 13 | ‘ When the sandfly bites you , it lets in this protozoan , which gets under your skin and eats away the underlayer , after which the top layer breaks away leaving raw , open wounds . |
| 14 | In 1931 , in the name of sectarian orthodoxy , Nizan challenged the heretical Barbusse , sought to wrest the editorial control of Monde from the hands of this unrepentant " right-wing deviationist " , and came away the loser . |
| 15 | Tina wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand , and shooed away the flies as they played round her face . |
| 16 | ‘ Yer Mum asked me to call in and clear away the crocks and tek the chairs outside ready ter goo back ter the mission 'all . ’ |
| 17 | The girls had washed and put away the cups and plates , covered the few squares of sandwiches that remained with a damp cloth . |
| 18 | The only change she had made to the property was to build a garage , and after he had unloaded and put away the Jaguar he decided to climb to the top chamber of the mill while it was still light . |
| 19 | She carefully cleaned her brushes and put away the paints , then realised she was very hungry . |
| 20 | Mrs Oliver is walking the dog , Alfred has washed and tidied away the tea things while keeping an eye on the shop from the adjoining neat and spotlessly clean flat . |
| 21 | To paint Prague would be to paint a dream , a city of ideas , where the intellect and emotions meet and boogy away the night in a haze of ideology . |
| 22 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 23 | as if he , too , was perplexed , the man frowned , then he lifted off his helmet and peeled away the balaclava . |
| 24 | Will he confirm that it is our top priority to get back to the basics in education and to sweep away the leftist progressive teaching methods that , having been put to the test , have failed ? |
| 25 | When the gardener went to sleep , the bear would sit beside him devotedly and chase away the flies that tried to settle on his face . |
| 26 | It was not much extra work to sweep out and clean away the dust , but it did mean , yet again , dismantling the stove . |
| 27 | It will take 2 days to cut down all 80 trunks and clear away the wood . |
| 28 | Tilt the say and slice away the corners . |
| 29 | Like a game-cock in arrogance , he lifted her back across the dividing space and pulling away the collar of her , inevitably musquash , fur coat , he dropped his mouth low on the back of her neck , drawing kisses to and fro and nibbling gently across it . |
| 30 | And he glanced round at the still-insensible Liam and threw away the cigarette in disgust . |