Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] [vb pp] away from " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the most personally evocative thing of all , Sabine thought , wincing , and she could understand why Hugh had always shied away from clearing out his wife 's things . |
| 2 | Mr Stevenson had also worked away from his home in Leyland , Lancashire before . |
| 3 | His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court . |
| 4 | It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They could not forget that the American government had already backed away from some of its more liberal inclinations on postwar world economic development in the face of various domestic pressure groups . |
| 7 | Significantly , the European areas of the ex-Empire that had been more pronounced than Belorussia in their ethnic and/or religious divergence from the Great-Russian norm had either broken away from Bolshevik Russia ( the Baltic littoral and Finland ) or else created serious difficulties for the Bolsheviks ( Georgia in 1922 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |