Example sentences of "had [verb] away [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Copa Bitoo had moved away from a subsistence economy , but was producing fruit and nuts for the local market , not for export . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mark 's voice had trailed away to a whisper . |
| 12 | ‘ You recollect the gossip that was rife at the time — that he had run away to a monastery ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The sex had drifted away after a while , and Jay did n't mind ; not in that end-of-the-world Astrid way . |