Example sentences of "[noun pl] clear [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | Some companies , including James Capel , the stockbrokers , called in their workforces to clear up the damage . |
| 3 | Let us begin with his efforts to clear up the confusion of questions 2 and 3 . |
| 4 | A J-C-B digger was brought in , but it still took more than three hours to clear up the mess . |
| 5 | In the hall a few sleepy serfs cleared away the debris left from the evening meal . |
| 6 | For some time a rumour had persisted that Horemheb , in his moves to clear up the corruption which had flourished like rampant weed during the years in which the city had fallen into neglect , had more than once attempted to close it ; but that the interests which protected it were still too powerful for him to dispense with . |
| 7 | Mothers cleared up the remnants of picnics . |
| 8 | When he saw Scott 's interest in the history of the valley he arranged for men to clear out the rubbish which had accumulated in Hermitage castle so that the visitors could inspect the dungeon . |
| 9 | As people went to the polls in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in northern Bosnia , bulldozers cleared away the remains of two 16th-century mosques blown up the previous week . |
| 10 | When she went down to breakfast there was the background noise of caterers clearing away the vestiges of the ball . |
| 11 | As the ravers and new age travellers helped local council workmen clear up the site , there was praise for the way the police handled the weekend . |
| 12 | I will write to competitors to clear up the situation . ’ |