Example sentences of "away [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , to his own surprise , be had quite successfully smoothed away her early-morning blues , and she 'd returned to sleep without having mentioned once the child she 'd lost . |
| 2 | Not knowing what else to do , Theda first found a fresh cap and tucked away her dangerous locks , and then began to lay out her clothes , retrieving her portmanteau from under the bed . |
| 3 | His hand moved down the length of her body , stroking away her remaining garments , his eyes watching her as she shivered with delight , shaking her head wildly , and he bent his head , a growl of satisfaction leaving his throat in a completely masculine way . |
| 4 | She 'd be able to feel the dipping stones of the pavement for ever now , she could call it all up at will : the soft-gutted proprietor drinking red wine for breakfast , his distracted mother wandering from room to room in a filthy wrapper , his wife powdering away her bitter lines and painting her disappointed mouth pink for the soft light of evening . |
| 5 | Alistair waved away their complex requests . |
| 6 | They 've thrown away their frilly skirts and put on some more grown-up clothes . |
| 7 | Lucker returns from town , having made a whole tribe of redneck friends who for once put away their normal prejudices for the sake of broadening their knowledge . |
| 8 | The three novels chart an attempt to develop linguistic techniques which represent the current state of affairs and at the same time challenge it by enlisting subversive laughter as a tool to destabilize fixed systems and tear away their protective layers of discursive convention . |
| 9 | MEN who want to attract women should throw away their expensive aftershaves . |
| 10 | A limp , faded woman in a blue overall cleared away their dirty plates , and passed a damp rag over the table , which left small particles of food in its wake . |
| 11 | Take away their joyful larcenies and those Indians would be able to define themselves less easily . |
| 12 | Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks . |
| 13 | Did the idea of the middle-class ‘ gentlemen/animals ’ come to Kenneth Grahame as he rowed gently upstream for tea at Golant — Mole and Rat idling away their idyllic lives by the gentle river and the boastful Toad , whose new-fangled fads led him to downfall and prison ? |
| 14 | She liked the way it stood , distinct and certain , rising out of the level muddy waste of grass and tarmac that generously surrounded it : a bomb had fallen during the war , on a neighbouring chapel , and the site had been levelled out and was now an unofficial part of the school 's playgrounds The whole area was of a bleak airiness , and a cold wind seemed to blow incessantly upon it , turning the knees and knuckles of the girls pink and blue , and snatching away their obligatory berets the moment they emerged from the school porch . |
| 15 | Caterpillars munch for months , packing away their favourite leaves before the season finishes . |
| 16 | There was no question of taking away their own machines from women already working as Monotype operators in 1910 . |
| 17 | Large-scale industries in pre-railway days needed canal-side sites both for bringing in their coal and other raw materials and for taking away their heavy products . |
| 18 | ‘ Fat lot of use leather gear is to you under these circumstances , ’ she mumbled , and set to with her scissors to cut away his shredded clothes . |
| 19 | Graeme Brown , who works in the pattern department has decided to throw away his civvy clothes and don the uniform of the Royal Air Force . |
| 20 | They unwound his sash and stripped away his sodden garments . |
| 21 | She returned his letters unopened , and threw away his small gifts . |
| 22 | The imaginary conversations he held as he travelled the country roads were not simply distractions to while away his lonely journeys but rehearsals of the arguments he would use to outsmart the hunters and send them back home empty-handed . |
| 23 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 24 | Sometimes this will mean giving away your strongest leaders ; your most sacrificial givers ; your steadiest workers . |
| 25 | Vow to be more adventurous — put away your old faithfuls and follow out tips to create a flattering summer face : |
| 26 | HIDE your ankle boots and put away your sensible lace-ups when summer arrives . |
| 27 | And when you think about it they must be illegal , cos if a shop puts up a sign saying no money refunded they are , are trying to take away your statutory rights . |
| 28 | Erm , some film producer sitting in London , thinks of a rural county , he 'll probably think of Shropshire , and I think this is typical example of how we can dribble away our scarce resources on a couple of thousand here , a couple of thousand there to other bodies , erm , I am , I 'm , I 'm against this proposal , we 'll keep our money for essential items . |
| 29 | There are a couple of second prizes of Ios geodesic tents , two-person backpacking models worth £99 each while four winners will take away our third prizes of Tinos sloping ridge tents . |