Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] away from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But despite being subject to the second wave of pan-European reform in psychiatry since the 1940s , France has not moved away from the asylums with any speed . |
| 4 | ‘ While the Chris Hani case did have a tremendous impact on South Africa it has not taken away from investigations into the murders of Julie and Elizabeth . ’ |
| 5 | Instead new development has gradually gravitated away from North Shields and is now much nearer to Whitley Bay [ then a separate local authority ] . |
| 6 | The onus of showing reliance has now shifted away from the buyer and it is for the seller to prove that there was no reasonable reliance . |
| 7 | ‘ At least Mike has n't run away from his past . |
| 8 | That 's the reality of homebuilding , and in this book Geoff Jones has n't shied away from recognising that patience and a sense of humour are as essential to the completion of a project as adeptness with bandsaw or metal shears . |
| 9 | The detective has therefore moved away from the centrally important activity of seizing the villains into a manipulated world where the paper exercise of statistical detections is used to assuage politicians , the media , and a public obsessed with the moral panic of increasing crime rates . |
| 10 | Coxall and Robins ’ ( 1989 , p. 309 ) apology for a Conservative-dominated press , that ‘ it has never shied away from criticising the Conservative Party or a Conservative Government ’ , is misleading . |
| 11 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 12 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |
| 13 | Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress . |
| 14 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |
| 15 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
| 16 | There was fierce controversy surrounding the conference 's decision on April 22 to invite , as guests , members of the 1981 Solidarity leadership who had since split away from the union — most notably the former national co-ordinating commission member Andrzej Gwiazda , who had left after accusing Solidarity 's chairman , Lech Walesa , of generating a personality cult . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Relieved that he had apparently not betrayed himself and yet wishing that she had not moved away from him , David told her about the history of the old Jewish quarter of Venice . |
| 24 | Rooted near the bottom of the table , they had not won away from home for nearly two years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had just turned away from us and read a book . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've always kept away from humans ! ’ |
| 28 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We 've deliberately stayed away from the official national trails in England , Scotland and Wales . |