Example sentences of "have [verb] away [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the form book is followed , his semi-final opponent will be Parrott whose season , after wins in Dubai and the United Kingdom Open , has fallen away under a welter of off-the-table commitments .
2 Howard hugs her , and has to look away for a moment , he is so moved .
3 They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise
4 For once the preciseness of the words did not irritate Aggie , and she answered gently , ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but … but she 's had to go away for a day or two . ’
5 ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’
6 I need to know where I can find a woman who has recently returned to her family after having run away with a man called Resenence Jeopardy . ’
7 ‘ We 'll turn you in , arrange police protection , perhaps the family 'll have to move away for a while , but — ‘
8 While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology .
9 And Abbey Fields , went round , we went round Abbey Fields and then came back onto the Clacton Road higher up , Colchester was n't the same , they 've done away with a lot of the high walls they had round
10 This was all fantasy , of course , for one or two people had come , Evans or Owens from Hadleigh , the coypu man , a meter reader , the man who wanted to do the garden and whom he had turned away with a lie .
11 Copa Bitoo had moved away from a subsistence economy , but was producing fruit and nuts for the local market , not for export .
12 The percussion concert of cartridges , bolts , and shrapnel had died away into a hush of gasps and swishes pierced by the occasional piccolo note of a scream .
13 The youngest was a Spanish cabinboy who had run away a few years before from his vicious captain , the oldest a maroon from Benin who had fled a plantation on an island to the north : he had stowed away in a pirate ship that had stopped to draw water on Oualie .
14 He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them .
15 If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate .
16 She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came .
17 It was sent to Alison 's brother , Mark , and implied that she and their father had gone away for a break as both were suffering from depression .
18 When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks .
19 Mark 's voice had trailed away to a whisper .
20 ‘ You recollect the gossip that was rife at the time — that he had run away to a monastery ? ’
21 The show was over , the audience had drifted away to a reception room where they would be further wooed with a glass of champagne and a selection of canapes and nibbles and Paula , dressed now in one of her own suits , smart black barathea , had emerged from the dressing rooms to meet the waiting Sally and Edward .
22 The sex had drifted away after a while , and Jay did n't mind ; not in that end-of-the-world Astrid way .
23 If you chat too long with a particular parent , it means others have to slip away without a word .
24 So I bet he 's come away with a quarter of a million !
25 These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies .
26 ‘ He 's gone away for a while . ’
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