1 Pull the plug and let the water drain away.

2 Sally felt her anger drain away.

3 Dig trenches to drain away the water.

4 I watched the light drain away.

5 I watched the bath water drain away.

6 I watched the light drain away and felt the cold clawing at the earth between the tables.

7 The lifeblood of Sarajevo will drain away,[] the television cameras will go home and Bosnia will be forgotten in the West.

8 We drain away force as we indulge in inner talk.

9 Let's drain away the flood waters.

10 You should dig trenches to drain away the water.

11 The water will soon drain away.

12 If Merrill fell, confidence would drain away.

13 Hope and energy drain away over the years.

14 We dug trenches to drain away the dirty water.

15 We dug trenches to drain away the water.

16 The water will soon drain away [ off ].

17 And then, suddenly, the euphoria began to drain away.

18 After these three words, her strength seems to drain away.

19 Yet a displacement of time would drain away the soft interstices, leaving walls like scraped clinkers.

20 We must dig a trench to drain away the water.

21 Stretching out her tired limbs, she felt the tensions of the day drain away.

22 She pulled out the plug and let the water drain away.

23 Unlike the gentle technique described earlier, anti-cellulite massage should be vigorous to help drain away toxic wastes from the tissues.

24 But even as the country's gold and currency reserves continued to drain away, worse was to come.

25 Even before that I had put on some weight which didn't all drain away during my illness.

26 No one quite knows why glaciers and ice shelves are melting so fast, or how a meltwater lake on the Greenland ice sheet covering six square kilometres could drain away in 24 hours, as it did in 2006.

27 The upper layer has a slope for the water to drain away.

28 Pull ( out ) the plug and let the water drain away.

29 Any more water added to soil at field capacity would drain away by gravity.

30 We have to put in another pipe to let the water drain away.

31 Flat roofs may either be dead level or (preferably) have some degree of pitch to them so that rainwater and melted snow can drain away.