Example sentences of "they [vb past] away the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stripped away the veneers of mystery . |
| 2 | That night , they dug away the earth and drew the nails from the planks and removed the great bars that had closed all the formal entrances into the city , and completed the bridging of the ditch that led to the land gate . |
| 3 | The gang had played monopoly as they wiled away the hours , perhaps dreaming of Park Lane and Mayfair . |
| 4 | They blew away the chauffeur 's head with a machine gun . |
| 5 | Donald , Pringle , Snell and McMillan all looked healthily hostile as they blew away the cream of Australian batting for under 200 , and Hudson showed touches of class as South Africa won by nine wickets . |
| 6 | They took away the telephone after Gran tried to telephone Buckingham Palace to complain to the Queen . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , in a lot of cases where they took away the rights for |
| 8 | From the Canadian premises they took away the consuls of Canada , Ireland , the USA and Australia , but subsequently released them . |
| 9 | I was very apprehensive and the fact that they took away the radio at the same time made our suspicions worse . |
| 10 | Others recall the plague of rats ( ‘ They tore away the bottoms from the boys ’ trousers and at night you could hear their squeaking very clearly' ) and the epidemic of scabies . |
| 11 | They fumbled away the game , 37-14 , to the Colts , and lost quarterback Jim Kelly for perhaps four weeks with a shoulder separation . |
| 12 | ‘ What are you wearing for the party ? ’ asked Irene , as they cleared away the tea things . |
| 13 | They whiled away the years by maintaining salons in which the gibes against the ruling house were repeated , or had their origins , for even in such aristocratic surroundings wit was often confused with bad taste . |
| 14 | They whiled away the time , Ranulf playing dice against himself , the only time he ever lost . |
| 15 | They carried away the bin of meat fragments they had been carrying . |
| 16 | When the revolutions of 1989 brought down the eastern bloc dictatorships , they swept away the façade of historical half-truths , distortions and lies on which the ruling élites grounded their legitimacy . |