Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] away [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds . |
| 2 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |
| 3 | Sometime back in 1975 — the date franked on the envelopes — the front line moved across the postal sorting office and the employees must have simply run away during their shift . |
| 4 | It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession . |
| 5 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 6 | He was wearing a navy sweater and a light-coloured shirt and blue jeans , and her heart lurched because time shrank to the moment when she had finally walked away from him , one autumn morning , early , with their love already an awful deadweight in her memory . |
| 7 | He had just turned away from us and read a book . |
| 8 | Do n't think you can get away with it just because you 've always got away with everything , since you set that nursemaid 's apron alight . ’ |
| 9 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 10 | Mr Stevenson had also worked away from his home in Leyland , Lancashire before . |
| 11 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |
| 12 | ‘ It takes two to make a baby … but men have always run away from their responsibilities . |