Example sentences of "are [verb] away the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there is clear evidence that the meandering creeks that wander across the flats are eating away the sediment again soon after it is deposited ( plate 5.1 ) . |
| 2 | Discs advance on alarming quantities of Austrian ice cream , back home Madness are dusting away the cobwebs in Finsbury Park . |
| 3 | While democratic governments are giving away the Empire which our fathers won , our people are abandoned to poverty and unemployment . |
| 4 | The male adult koel also mimics the plumage of its hosts : the crows are vigorously territorial and while they are chasing away the intruding male , the female koel can sneak in and lay her egg . |
| 5 | But for some of the workers who feel their wages are slipping away the race to the receivers and court feels like one they ca n't win . |
| 6 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
| 7 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |