Example sentences of "away [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first tactic was to say they would take away the licence of any striker : their second was to say all striking drivers were in breach of contract and fire them . |
| 2 | Labour 's Derek Foster said he would lobby Agriculture Minister John Gummer to overturn a decision by the Intervention Board to take away the licence for certifying steers castrated bulls . |
| 3 | Wordsworth returned to his former trust in France , and thought of the British Tory government as ‘ vermin' ( Prelude 1805 , x , 655 ) ; but when the French began to take away the liberty of other countries , Wordsworth saw that there was little to choose between the French and any other conquering nation ( Prelude 1805 , x , 792 ff ) . |
| 4 | The Dynmouth Hards rode into the town that night and took away the telephone from the kiosk in Baptist Street . |
| 5 | The further away the centre of power , the more difficult it is to complain . |
| 6 | Nor will the spider give away the presence of her home during daylight hours . |
| 7 | A loud burst of singing gave away the presence of the ubiquitous wren . |
| 8 | I thank the man , a campesino , and pull off my top to wipe away the gob with toilet roll . |
| 9 | When you wipe away the spectre of communal singalongs and seriously hamfisted , guitar-drenched versions of these songs in their live incarnation from your eyes , what 's left — on the supercool tracks , at least — are lessons in intimacy , humanistic notions of caring and something approaching religious rapture ( the old adage , ‘ Do good , for the good you do will live after you ’ applies ) . |
| 10 | ‘ My father would have said it was merely an animal bribe to turn away the wrath of strangers . |
| 11 | Only a civil suit , at the very least , could wipe away the stain on family honour . |
| 12 | Her hair was piled at her head , tied in a scarlet bandanna , and when she turned her face to look wanly up at us there were soot-marks on her brow and cheeks where she had wiped away the sweat with the back of her hand . |
| 13 | The water is intended to wash away the contamination of sacredness of persons who have been acting a priestly role . |
| 14 | Of course , there was the continual ringing sound of the quarryman chipping away the stone at Tilly Whim or in the bowels of the earth under Cowleaze . |
| 15 | I slipped from my own chair without a word , kicked away the detritus of my previous life which was posing as champagne foil , and followed him to the Gents . |
| 16 | Fontenoy too was designed to be a watershed — washing away the detritus of the past , opening up a clear future . |
| 17 | to take away the guilt of man 's sin . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Many feel that judges could be given greater leeway than even under present rules , perhaps through case conferences , to cut away the deadwood of the case and focus on the principal points of dispute . |
| 20 | He had bought a bunch of parsley on his way in , because he had heard that it clears away the smell of alcohol . |
| 21 | She would not bathe away the smell of him , and slipped an overall over her bare skin . |
| 22 | In Ninfania , no one threw away the feather of a bird or the peel of a fruit or the seed from a melon , let alone such durable items as the buttons and hooks and eyes from a worn-out item of underwear — I 've seen you still snip them off an old bra , even today , and drop them into a little box in your sewing basket . |
| 23 | The PLO , of course , saw its often murderous operations as a sacred duty ; they were fighting the occupying power that had taken away the land of the Palestinians . |
| 24 | For hot sun to drive away the chill inside her . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen 'em loading up the Guineamen ready to sail for Africa , ’ she said , thrusting away the indignity of being shackled , cheering herself with talk . |
| 26 | Allan Stewart was starting to clear away the mess of jugs and pots with a deliberate clatter . |
| 27 | She hurried into the living-room and went to the table to clear away the heap of news-cuttings . |
| 28 | Observers took away the implication of a combination or merger between the two consortia . |
| 29 | Many of these straits are noted for strong tidal currents , but although such currents may assist in moving away the debris of erosion , they are generally held to be impotent as a cause of marked marine erosion , at least of those which outcrop in this locality . |
| 30 | As the waiter cleared away the debris of their meal , Luke Hunter was looking at Folly across the table with an expression in his eyes that she found hard to classify . |