Example sentences of "[noun] who have [vb pp] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Norman Hector Leifchild ( ‘ Nathaniel ’ ) ( 1893–1976 ) , humorous columnist , was born 31 May 1893 at 4 Somerset Road , Ealing , Middlesex , the only surviving son ( there were also three older daughters , of whom the younger two were twins ) of William Gubbins , commercial traveller , formerly an Oxfordshire farmworker who had run away to London at the age of twelve to sell groceries , and his wife Marie Cecile Richards . |
| 2 | Working with youngsters who have run away is not easy . |
| 3 | Most of the Orphists were Cubists who had broken away and formulated new stylistic and aesthetic principles . |
| 4 | ‘ For instance , should a child who has run away from home ring and ask that their parents be contacted , then the counsellors will do that and tell the mum and dad concerned where the child is , ’ she says . |
| 5 | Mr Van Eck said that he had recorded documentary evidence that police — some in plain clothes — had been shooting supporters of local headmen who had broken away from the committee running Crossroads , alleging fraud and corruption . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We say goodbye in this issue to Kevin Chevis who has beavered away in Key Publishing 's Photo Department and whose work has graced the pages of FlyPast for the last three years . |
| 8 | Many of the Minpins who had flown away a short while before were now returning on their birds . |
| 9 | We make some suggestions in the resorts section of the magazine from writers who have kept away from the pistes and enjoyed it . |
| 10 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 11 | It was the tall woman who had slipped away after the funeral service . |
| 12 | One felt sorry , for him ; he had fought like a man , leading the charge of his troops , for a worthless son who had not even the courage to risk death in supporting the father who had thrown away everything for his sake . |
| 13 | Should we include people who have moved away because of the motorway ? |
| 14 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
| 15 | A man who has given away his greatest secret can not afford further pretence . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 18 | ‘ But on the whole the ones who like it best are the ones who 've gone away . ’ |
| 19 | Ostensibly it was the life story of an eighteenth-century naval officer who 'd whiled away his spare time documenting and researching contemporary erotica . |
| 20 | The Hyde Housing Association , responsible for the site , had already drawn up a list of people ‘ with strong connections with Medstead — basically those who had been resident in the village for over five years , or former residents who had moved away and wished to return , ’ said Mr. Winter . |
| 21 | Meanwhile it was reported on June 10 that 10 pro-Kurdish MPs who had broken away from the SDPP [ see also p. 37593 ] had formed the People 's Labour Party . |
| 22 | Any of a thousand princes who had crawled away from the fire to shed their blood and start a legend … |
| 23 | The youngest was a Spanish cabinboy who had run away a few years before from his vicious captain , the oldest a maroon from Benin who had fled a plantation on an island to the north : he had stowed away in a pirate ship that had stopped to draw water on Oualie . |
| 24 | That in turn was vital to recapture those discerning consumers who had turned away from beef because of its lack of taste . |
| 25 | It had , in fact , been sent to a counsellor by a client who 'd moved away before finishing therapy . |
| 26 | Then while the Sassanian dynasty was emerging in its turn , following the Parthians who had swept away the Seleucid regime that ruled both Mesopotamia and the lands farther east after the break-up of Alexander 's vast empire in the fourth century BC , the scene was set for the emergence of Islam . |