Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] had [verb] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 2 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 3 | The fears of those who had stayed away in 1964 were in danger of being realised in 1988 . |
| 4 | Sarah was in the kitchen when she arrived , and her heart gave a sudden leap as she recognized the plump , rosy-faced woman as one of the two who had driven away from the Foundling Hospital that fateful day . |
| 5 | But friends were not surprised he had slipped away with the physio , who has practices in Sydney and London . |