Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] away [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 She and had obviously gone away for the weekend .
4 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 .
5 He looked back , briefly , but Kirov had already melted away into the darkness .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 She had nearly melted away on the spot .
9 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 .
10 The group had then ridden away across the river .
11 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 .
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