Example sentences of "[verb] something away " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think they 're being watched in the hope that they 'll give something away . |
| 2 | ‘ The day you give something away I 'll take a vow of chastity . |
| 3 | I mean I do n't know cos I 'm not , I think when they give something away for nothing it 's almost worse than when they 're paying . |
| 4 | that 's been there all day , come on Deana , if you 're gon na have the lamp on you 're gon na have to put something away , some books or is that packet any good now ? |
| 5 | You could say that most winters in Baldersdale are too long , and every time we have a really bad one it takes something away from me in a physical sense . |
| 6 | er you were , you were saying that er for some people the group is a kind of a danger cos it takes something away from them , and that 's certainly true , but the th the point I was , I was getting at was that |
| 7 | But remember — the retailer may appear to be giving something away , but he 's in business to make sales . |
| 8 | Keep your mouth closed when you 've got something in it or we 'll take something away . |
| 9 | One of his first papers was called the neuro psychoses of defence , and defence meant fending something away from consciousness , what he later called repression . |
| 10 | It took something away from everyone , whether they 'd been IP in the past or not . |
| 11 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
| 12 | it means that they 're there and that if you take something away from the wealthy peasants and equalize |
| 13 | She now flapped her hand as if shooing something away , then went out of the kitchen and onto the landing , and here , as she had before , she stopped , but only long enough to raise her eyes to the whitewashed ceiling as her mind said , Dear God , do n't let anything come of this . |
| 14 | ‘ Miss Hauxwell , ’ I said , ‘ you 'll have to throw something away . ’ |