Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they accept that these numbers include practising Christians unable — or unwilling — to pay the tax , they believe that most are people who have long drifted away from the church . |
| 2 | I have perhaps strayed away from matters of industry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have only slipped away into the next room . |
| 5 | we have finally done away with death . |
| 6 | ‘ It takes two to make a baby … but men have always run away from their responsibilities . |
| 7 | But I have always shied away from using it on tables , perhaps feeling that a table should be capable of taking a certain amount of abuse . |
| 8 | Mining , new towns and motorways have gradually eaten away at woodland in the region . |
| 9 | Many other groups of specialists have also withered away in the face of data processing . |
| 10 | In the words of Claire , a crew member ‘ I have also come away with lasting friendships , borne of total trust , respect and deep affection . ’ |
| 11 | The heavy attacks on the Commando positions around the village and the counter attacks that followed have now faded away since the attack on Breville on the night of 12th June . |
| 12 | Organized interests not surprisingly have increasingly turned away from legislatures and have concentrated their political pressures on the bureaucracy and the executive . |
| 13 | The novelists considered so far have consistently broken away from fixed plot-sequences in the pursuit of authenticity and freedom . |
| 14 | The champions have yet to win away from home in nine League attempts this season and their only victories at Palace were in 1921 and 1981 . |
| 15 | But the bulk of it , now that I have re-read it in connection with this memoir , I have quietly made away with . |
| 16 | I have never banged away with fifteen strangers in a back street in Ashton before . |
| 17 | We have never gone away from the fact that the town plan and the policy statement in there that if the road was provided the land is in the town plan and this Council would have approved it . |
| 18 | If the Minister can give us any example from the privatisation programme , in which the Government have been engaged since 1979 , of a Secretary of State coming to the House in order to bring in check private owners who have subsequently done away with the right of the employees of former public companies , I should be extremely interested to hear about it . |