Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But despite being subject to the second wave of pan-European reform in psychiatry since the 1940s , France has not moved away from the asylums with any speed . |
| 2 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |
| 3 | The walls have turned a gruesome red-brown from the urine which has also eaten away at the wooden structure of one of the portals . |
| 4 | The onus of showing reliance has now shifted away from the buyer and it is for the seller to prove that there was no reasonable reliance . |
| 5 | The detective has therefore moved away from the centrally important activity of seizing the villains into a manipulated world where the paper exercise of statistical detections is used to assuage politicians , the media , and a public obsessed with the moral panic of increasing crime rates . |
| 6 | ‘ Then you 'd better keep away from the disco , ’ said Willis . |
| 7 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |
| 8 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
| 9 | There was fierce controversy surrounding the conference 's decision on April 22 to invite , as guests , members of the 1981 Solidarity leadership who had since split away from the union — most notably the former national co-ordinating commission member Andrzej Gwiazda , who had left after accusing Solidarity 's chairman , Lech Walesa , of generating a personality cult . |
| 10 | They were confronted , by contrast , by Prime Ministers of the calibre of Pitt the Younger and by the time Victoria ascended the throne executive power had effectively shifted away from the throne and into the Cabinet room . |
| 11 | She and had obviously gone away for the weekend . |
| 12 | In Alessio Rospigliosi had already turned away from the heavily exploited areas of classical mythology and Christian epic to open up the unpromising vein of hagiology ; he now struck an infinitely more successful one . |
| 13 | He looked back , briefly , but Kirov had already melted away into the darkness . |
| 14 | The fanfare of trumpets for the 45f5 — the first fruit of the collaboration between the New Zealand designer and the Italian leaders in design — had hardly died away before the 53-footer ( 16.2m ) usurped her position as flagship of the Bénéteau range . |
| 15 | We 've deliberately stayed away from the official national trails in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 16 | The differences between the painters appear to have been purely personal , but Delaunay had also moved away from the other Cubists in his works of 1912 , and , using his Cubist researches as a point of departure , was developing a much more purely abstract kind of painting with colour as its principal element . |
| 17 | She had nearly melted away on the spot . |
| 18 | These had now moved away from the bright primaries of the early Sixties and included many rustic shades such as mushroom brown , sage green and sludgy blue ; colours , which were more reminiscent of the old-fashioned vegetable dyes and perfectly complemented the style of the dresses . |
| 19 | The group had then ridden away across the river . |
| 20 | I find that the conditions prevailing at the time when the reduction in rent was made , had completely passed away by the early months of 1945 . |
| 21 | Although they accept that these numbers include practising Christians unable — or unwilling — to pay the tax , they believe that most are people who have long drifted away from the church . |
| 22 | I have only slipped away into the next room . |
| 23 | City ( 6th ) , who have not won away in the League since November , are without Quinn ( hamstring and dislocated finger ) , with player-manager Reid likely to recall himself . |
| 24 | Many other groups of specialists have also withered away in the face of data processing . |
| 25 | The heavy attacks on the Commando positions around the village and the counter attacks that followed have now faded away since the attack on Breville on the night of 12th June . |
| 26 | We have never gone away from the fact that the town plan and the policy statement in there that if the road was provided the land is in the town plan and this Council would have approved it . |
| 27 | If the Minister can give us any example from the privatisation programme , in which the Government have been engaged since 1979 , of a Secretary of State coming to the House in order to bring in check private owners who have subsequently done away with the right of the employees of former public companies , I should be extremely interested to hear about it . |