Example sentences of "[v-ing] it away " in BNC.
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| 1 | He raised the knife to stab and she succeeded in knocking it away . |
| 2 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |
| 3 | So far the TUC has begun a series of training seminars with Solidarity aimed at pushing it away from being a political and highly regionalised organisation into being an industrial and truly national one . |
| 4 | A suspicion kept niggling at the back of her mind , but she kept pushing it away as more than she could deal with . |
| 5 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |
| 6 | pushing it away . |
| 7 | She felt almost physically ill with it , nerves a knot in her stomach , and she could n't dismiss the feeling because there was no rationalising it away . |
| 8 | ‘ There , that 's long enough , ’ she said , but without pulling it away . |
| 9 | She felt strong fingers catch hold of it , grasping it firmly and pulling it away from her face . |
| 10 | And it 's no good actually , it 's not good pulling it like that and pulling it away because it 'll still be there . |
| 11 | G. says he thinks the man is lying , that the vat went over not by accident but because the ice cream was not up to standard and pouring it away was the most convenient way of getting rid of it . |
| 12 | Federalists are worried that new members will dilute the EC , turning it away from the grandiose schemes of political union and towards the modest goal of free trade . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's for unfreezing car locks , ’ said Robyn , hastily stowing it away in the glove compartment . |
| 14 | They talked it over endlessly , and the icicles started to melt , dripping on to the rock of objection and wearing it away . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , Joe , ’ Lucy said sadly as she drew out Chrissie 's knife and , holding it away from herself , released the blade . |
| 16 | But I do know that when times were bad , the people in the dale had to use the wool off the backs of the sheep themselves instead of sending it away to the wool merchants of Bradford after shearing . |
| 17 | His sister 's afterbirth was in the road — and the time they had getting it away ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Now , Muhammad , ’ she says , wiping it away . |
| 19 | Wiping it away with his handkerchief , he closed his eyes , opened them and looked round the room , then back at the newsprint in front of him , as if he might have been dreaming or have imagined it . |
| 20 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 21 | And you 're sat there and you 're like kicking it away and it goes worse . |
| 22 | But later he awoke to his own cry as creatures from under large old moss-green rocks crawled up his legs , leeching on the white skin , wetly sucking the blood , and above him , ropes , rigging , nets , a gigantic sagging cobweb of strung and re-strung hemp lines , swayed down to trap him ( children crying ) , and wherever he looked the wide mouths of women , no other feature but the mouth , tongues thick and purple as damsons , teeth white as the flecks on fall water and hands , nails curled and black , clawing at him , at his clothes , at his chest , at his face ( children wailing ) , ripping it away , tearing the skin from the skull … |
| 23 | The metal tore into his flesh , ripping it away , slicing effortlessly through skin and muscles , exposing a portion of the middle-finger knuckle . |
| 24 | Barry leant forward and whispered conspiratorially , his breath smelling of mint , ‘ Look , Sergeant , we know as well as you do that Parkin was having it away with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 25 | Of having it away with your wife . |
| 26 | The white silk/satin waistcoat emblazoned with the Pimm 's logo ( below ) is a one-off , and we 're giving it away to one lucky reader . |
| 27 | By learning to be ‘ open channels ’ — spending money , giving it away , passing on old clothes , furniture and bric-a-brac we no longer use — we encourage more to flow into our lives . |
| 28 | ‘ Now that is a true , a genuine , bargain — £65 for a coat like that is really giving it away , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I always feel I have n't got enough of it , so I 'm mean about giving it away . ’ |
| 30 | When I went to the antenatal clinic for my very first check-up , this elderly doctor burst through the door , looked at me and said , " You should n't be having this baby , you should be giving it away to somebody less fortunate . " |