Example sentences of "run away " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had literally run away — from Englishness ! |
| 2 | About a third of those interviewed said they had run away because of ‘ problems at home ’ . |
| 3 | It was this ruthless clarity and brightness that she had run away from . |
| 4 | Jane found solace in the humour and support of the local people : Davyd , Meryvn , the clever Henry , aged sixty-eight but very spry , who had run away to sea at fifteen , and did everything so well and systematically — shipshape , in fact . |
| 5 | If you kill the people you love — or run away from them — you only smash yourself in the end . |
| 6 | Feeling sick with relief that she had not run away with a rich man , Frankie shook his head vigorously in agreement and clung to her arm . |
| 7 | ‘ Wait downstairs in the hall — and do n't you dare run away ! ’ |
| 8 | Many young people run away from home rather than face up to their problems . |
| 9 | ‘ It takes two to make a baby … but men have always run away from their responsibilities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Replicators do n't behave , do n't perceive the world , do n't catch prey or run away from predators ; they make vehicles that do all those things . |
| 12 | ‘ She left no clues , you see , so no one really considered that she might just have run away . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I decided that if she had run away she must have gone somewhere where it would be very difficult to find her . |
| 14 | Why run away from home when we 've a fascinating country of our own ? |
| 15 | The cabdrivers had run away , the cowards . |
| 16 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
| 17 | And now he was here , a different life , learning not to forget his past and not trying to hide or run away from it but rather learning how to hit back , to use the overwhelming anger he had in him to both constructive and destructive ends . |
| 18 | Do n't let Toby get too far and do n't let him run away to the moon again . |
| 19 | ‘ How could a fork-lift truck run away on its own ? ’ she sobbed . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've run away , ’ he said , staring at her with such intensity that she felt a rush of alarm . |
| 21 | But the office , where he was an unelevated lazy Indian who had run away from his wife and children , there was disapproval from the clerks he worked with : there was mockery behind his back and in front of his face . |
| 22 | This explains Gandhi 's consternation on hearing that the people of a village near Bettiah had run away while the police raided their houses looting property and assaulting women . |
| 23 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 24 | ‘ He run away , ’ said Umberto with a grin . |
| 25 | In Bradford , underground networks of Muslim men try to track down women and girls who have run away from their families , and many Asian taxi drivers carry pictures of missing girls so they can ‘ rescue ’ them if spotted . |
| 26 | the blood run away from itself |
| 27 | Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ . |
| 28 | England had all the big men — Bayfield , Dooley and Rodber — yet the Scots had run away with the ball . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps she 's run away ? ’ suggested Enid to Maud as the girls trooped in for dinner . |
| 30 | Maud and Enid were still racking their brains as to the whereabouts of their friend , and Mildred felt utterly helpless as they passed by her jar and she heard Maud say , ‘ Perhaps she has run away , Enid . |