Example sentences of "away his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your swinging leg then completely takes away his support . |
| 2 | As for Williams , who had an English father , it would be easy to explain away his hostility to England ; but the sorrier likelihood is that he saw quite justly the baleful mixture of timidity and arrogance which characterized literary London in his lifetime . |
| 3 | He had proved that he had not , after all , thrown away his how-to-train manual , despite the fact that only Rambo 's Hall has won for him this season . |
| 4 | After the game of dice where Yudhishthira gambles away his kingdom , and finally his shared wife Draupadi , the winner from the rival family , seizes and tries to strip her . |
| 5 | But he says we need a lot more heavy rain before he can roll up and put away his prayer mat . ’ |
| 6 | Unknown to him , his wife is a gambler , who over the years has been secretly gambling away his money and assets . |
| 7 | May Almighty God graciously vouchsafe to hear the prayers of his people and turn away his judgment from this sinful land ! ’ |
| 8 | A hereditary Forest warden had therefore to seek royal confirmation if he wished to grant away his bailiwick . |
| 9 | Biff did n't seem unduly bothered ; he was chasing away his hangover with stinging gulps from his flask . |
| 10 | If the cuddly Lord Spencer , for whom the nation held its breath as he walked down the aisle of St Paul 's Cathedral to give away his daughter Diana , will be sorely missed , it is far from clear whether the departure of his widow from Althorp will be seen as a loss . |
| 11 | ‘ It is quite in order , ’ he said , ‘ for a person to put assets into family trusts , or indeed give assets away to other parties , provided that at the time a person gives away his assets he is quite solvent . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , one Wettin of Reichnau , a visionary monk , claimed to have seen Charles in Purgatory , where the purifying flames burned away his lust in preparation for his entry into Heaven . |
| 13 | The independent Law Commission has recommended that a commercial tenant should in general be freed from any future liability under a lease when he assigns away his interest under it . |
| 14 | He is now a forgotten man who will while away his twilight years alone and insecure in an alien land , longing to return to Russia.The KGB has not been slow to remind its senior intelligence personnel of the isolated lifestyle that awaits them in the West should they be tempted to defect , pointing out the benefits of enjoying a relatively luxurious and secure existence in Russia . |
| 15 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 16 | Sometimes he would throw away his francs to the soldiers and go home without a sou . |
| 17 | Detective Sergeant Joseph Bragg pushed away his plate , and wiped his ragged moustache . |
| 18 | The man freezes in the act of stowing away his wallet . |
| 19 | Looking at Pat quietly sleeping away his life , she was shocked , assailed , by a sense of solitude . |
| 20 | He sat dreaming , weeping , hating pity , driving away his well-wishers . |
| 21 | I waved away his solicitations and took a few mouthfuls of air followed by some tea . |
| 22 | He had put away his Churchill and was reading a new book . |
| 23 | Even the Oxford Museum was not free from Italian influence and ‘ Scott would be throwing away his best chance ’ if he let himself be debarred from doing the same . |
| 24 | Ginger then explained that Sam had taken away his girl , who claimed to be pregnant . |
| 25 | You paid her husband three thousand rupees and you took away his wife . |
| 26 | Ostensibly it was the life story of an eighteenth-century naval officer who 'd whiled away his spare time documenting and researching contemporary erotica . |
| 27 | Reliving the experience ( even if only in his imagination ) will still take away his feelings of foolishness and will provide him with a reason for his phobia . |
| 28 | Island Records , never the exploiters of Marley 's music some believe ( Lee Parry once claimed on quickly deleted vinyl that the company ‘ Kill Bob Marley and take away his royalties ’ ) , have recently issued the ‘ Talkin' Blues ’ album of out-takes , and last year released several Marley albums afresh on tape and CD . |
| 29 | We think of Michael who sent away his son , Luke , rather than give up his land ; and surely the picture of the man weeping with a lamb in his arms , which he has fetched ‘ from the rock ’ , calls up a wealth of Old and New Testament imagery ? |
| 30 | The curse was only employed twice — once against the magistrate who fined my father £100 and took away his publican 's licence for receiving a stolen lorry load of whisky during the war . |