Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] away from " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | I 've — I 've run away from home you see and … ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 've broken away from that whole junkie crowd . |
| 14 | I 've gotten away from … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's the first time I 've come away from an exhibition thinking that the exhibition as such was stupid . |
| 17 | I said , ‘ I have run away from home . |
| 18 | This strategic reorientation has progressed furthest in RX , which has moved away from copiers as its core business to customer-specified integrated office systems . |
| 19 | On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) . |
| 20 | On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) . |
| 21 | Across ashen , unredeemable scenes , Shakespeare 's words resound with redoubled force and humanity ; they sound almost ironic , in their fruitless reaching towards the images and emotions which have drained away from a soulless , monochrome universe . |
| 22 | Stories of atrocities from in and around Sarajevo by Serbs have numbed the world , but none have matched the tales of butchery and mutilation which have happened away from the cameras.The Wendlebury House normally operates as a home for underpriviledged children from London . |
| 23 | The Software Foundation admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , which have shied away from committing to Distributed Computing Environment until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Mrs Brown , 35 , has since made a full recovery but was unable to attend the ceremony because she has moved away from the area . |
| 26 | Then he said , he 'd heard you 'd moved away from home . |
| 27 | Something real had been left behind when she 'd walked away from Castell Rocamar , and she felt only half alive . |
| 28 | Even now , three weeks after she 'd driven away from that little cottage near Glenshee , he was still imprinted on her heart like a brand . |
| 29 | Why else would she have looked away from him to glance idly at the clock ? |
| 30 | OSF admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , who 've shied away from committing to DCE until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy ( UX No 424 ) . |