Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 2 | Aisha 's gold chain which I 'd carried away from her house hidden among my clothes was in my hands one moment and the next on the counter in the Oxford Street goldsmith 's . |
| 3 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 4 | Instead , in rebellion against the illusions of the stage and films , I had run away from home and joined the Marines . |
| 5 | I had run away from Sir Tom because I needed to find a bedrock of truth on which to build a life . |
| 6 | Something about the bat itself , the resined or saddlesoaped grain of its surface , offered unwelcome clarity , reminding me why I had stayed away from Scheldt 's and the sweet black chicks and their bargain blowjobs . |
| 7 | ‘ I had sent away by post , you see , for this very powerful itching-powder , ’ Hortensia said . |
| 8 | My morning sickness I had explained away as the bug starting and a lot of the time it was sickness at an evening meal . |
| 9 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 10 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 13 | I had got away by a lucky stroke and there would be no problem getting back into the Grand because one of my pals would be on sentry duty and it would be a case of " pass friend " . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to get away from there for a few hours . |
| 15 | Whatever it was , I began to be aware of all the doubts , of all the rational thoughts that I had put away in my pursuit of ‘ complementary ’ medicine . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | I 've — I 've run away from home you see and … ’ |
| 18 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 19 | Every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 20 | And every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 21 | I 've sent away for it . |
| 22 | I 've broken away from that whole junkie crowd . |
| 23 | I 've gotten away from … |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been to see the family ; I 've kept away until now … |
| 25 | Do you know , I , I 've come I 've come away from Luton , Stansted at times , Cambridge especially when I 've come down , perhaps half a dozen dinners . |
| 26 | It 's the first time I 've come away from an exhibition thinking that the exhibition as such was stupid . |
| 27 | It 's like a toy town I 've put away in the cupboard because I 'm too old for it and here it is , still waiting for me . |
| 28 | So but he thinks I 've got away with it but the pus in my mouth right now |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 30 | The week after next I have to go away for two weeks . ’ |