Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] away from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds . |
| 2 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 5 | He was wearing a navy sweater and a light-coloured shirt and blue jeans , and her heart lurched because time shrank to the moment when she had finally walked away from him , one autumn morning , early , with their love already an awful deadweight in her memory . |
| 6 | He had just turned away from us and read a book . |
| 7 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 8 | Mr Stevenson had also worked away from his home in Leyland , Lancashire before . |
| 9 | ‘ It takes two to make a baby … but men have always run away from their responsibilities . |