Example sentences of "away his " in BNC.
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| 31 | The police turned up at his home after midnight on the night Joanna went missing and searched the house from top to bottom , even taking away his clothes for tests . |
| 32 | Frank , 44 , from Devizes , Wiltshire , gave away his £2,250 savings , then lost his job . |
| 33 | KENNY DALGLISH last night laid into his defence which threw away his hopes of closing the gap on Premier League leaders Norwich . |
| 34 | But Crosby said yesterday 18-year-old Gray had encouraged him to put away his cheque book . |
| 35 | Following his own desires and urges he lay on straw in his freezing barn , after giving away his bed , his decent clothes , and his sound shoes . |
| 36 | He was a little late , and entered the house with some trepidation ; a maid took away his hat . |
| 37 | A man who has given away his greatest secret can not afford further pretence . |
| 38 | Her father had complained to the Water Board every year for the last fifteen of his life that their damned backwashing was washing away his river bank . |
| 39 | Mr Gorman lost his temper and accused Travis of luring away his daughter . |
| 40 | Four kids to rear and a husband coughing away his lungs from mustard gas . |
| 41 | She shrugged away his hands with an exaggerated gesture . |
| 42 | A MILLIONAIRE has given away his dead wife 's jewels to 73 young women . |
| 43 | In June , he told Puchberg bitterly that he had been forced to give away his ‘ Prussian ’ quartets for a song , just in order to have enough cash to meet his present obligations . |
| 44 | Swimming seemed to have washed away his sulkiness ; he was smoothed out , ready to charm . |
| 45 | You mean take away his food ? ’ |
| 46 | Take away his food and he will starve . ’ |
| 47 | What about taking away his food ? |
| 48 | But Roy had thrown away his script , and he spent an anxious plane journey trying to remember his lines . |
| 49 | SLEEPY Hugh O'Neil escaped a fine or jail for turning up two hours late at court yesterday — because cops searching his home had taken away his alarm clock . |
| 50 | BILLY BOILS BREMNER threw away his shirt in disgust after receiving the red card . |
| 51 | DJ Supreme from Hijack 's offering is particularly raw , and seems mightily generous : you would n't expect Terminator X to give away his secrets , after all . |
| 52 | He was strung between a character which threatened to spoil his opportunity and an opportunity which threatened to shear away his character . |
| 53 | They also carry away his body to the white ship at the time of his passing . |
| 54 | he screamed to persuade himself that he was not frightened , and suddenly the barricade dissolved in an explosion of smoke through which the musket flames stabbed like shivers of light and the General 's long white moustache was whipped by a bullet that went on to tear away his left ear-lobe , but that was the only injury he took for he had always been a lucky man , and he caught a glimpse of long weeds shivering under the silver water beneath the bridge , then he kicked his heels hard back , and his awkward ugly horse clumsily jumped the heaped-chairs at the right-hand end of the barricade . |
| 55 | The doctor stopped packing away his instruments and looked at Sarah sternly . |
| 56 | Three weeks later , on the first Saturday of July , James Grierson gave away his only daughter to Roy Ryan . |
| 57 | But when we see him next , sexual desire has begun to eat away his conscience , and he feels possessed by ‘ the strong and swelling evil/Of my conception ’ ( II.iv.6f . ) . |
| 58 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
| 59 | She returned his letters unopened , and threw away his small gifts . |
| 60 | He stood up , pushing away his empty cup . |