Example sentences of "have been [verb] away from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very curly perm has been shaped away from the face |
| 2 | Too often these pressures have been successful , and in consequence the distribution of public spending has been tilted away from the areas of greatest need , to those which generate the loudest demands . |
| 3 | A total of £1.5 billion a year has been taken away from the unemployed . |
| 4 | The gap in the paper where it has been torn away from the seal is a desirable human touch rather than a blemish . |
| 5 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 6 | There were other things he would not tell her either , such as the reason he had been called away from the restaurant . |
| 7 | We noticed the man 's wallet had been cut away from the belt round his waist . |
| 8 | The track had become a shallow river : the clay had been eaten away from the broken rock and pebble surface , and the front wheel of the motor cycle kicked continuously against the handlebars . |
| 9 | By mid December the main flow of the Tara had been diverted away from the base of the dam . |
| 10 | He had been turned away from the door of a local clan chief and needed a place to spend the night . |
| 11 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |
| 12 | Jack Foley began , but then he saw the car that had been pulled away from the corner where it had crashed . |
| 13 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 14 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |
| 15 | It is in the heart of Manchester , but for many years industry and commerce have been moving away from the city centre , increasing the risk that only a lifeless core will be left . |
| 16 | These refugees have been moved away from the border to facilitate military operations and now must endure life on the barren and wind-swept interior plateau . |
| 17 | Now , if we say to you , ‘ We understand a vast quantity of samples have been taken away from the scene , ’ now , if you do n't know that , then should you know it ? |