Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that the Colonello had been taken away , the only Italian from the camp who remained was one of the two interpreters , Capitano Camino , who had an excellent command of English because he had been a businessman in England before the war . |
| 2 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 3 | As she hung the waterproofs in the locker she remembered with vivid clarity how his gaze had met hers after Giles had been led away by the stewards . |
| 4 | Devon had been romping away with the section , but by the beginning of August had seen their lead whittled away , with Oxfordshire emerging as a growing and serious threat to their supremacy , 20 points behind but with two matches in hand . |
| 5 | By mid December the main flow of the Tara had been diverted away from the base of the dam . |
| 6 | Not a vestige remained of the cone Perboewetan , and the whole of the northern part of the cone Rakata had been blown away , leaving a semi-vertical vertical cliff . |
| 7 | From the old team , David Mellor and Gillian Shephard have been wafted away on promotion , and the election left two more empty saddles in the Treasury corral . |
| 8 | All afternoon , Martin had been hammering away in the conservatory . |
| 9 | But the Lady Prioress had maintained that de Craon had been turned away from Godstowe . |
| 10 | Rebus and Osvaldo had been blown away from each other some three metres . |
| 11 | What was left of Jonathan Riddle had been taken away by attendants to be stored in a refrigerated drawer until the coroner issued his certificate for disposal . |
| 12 | Anna chattered on and on , explaining that Nicolo had been called away early on business . |
| 13 | Mrs Gracie had been sent away . |
| 14 | The Cod and Lobster Inn at Staithes has been washed away and rebuilt three times — best get in there quickly before the next storm strikes … always a good excuse . |
| 15 | ‘ Anatoli ? ’ he called out after Vasili had been led away to the Zim . |
| 16 | Maybe the Fax machine was in one of the outbuildings , but they were the other side of the yard near the barn and Cawthorne had been walking away from them . |
| 17 | She must have misunderstood Tracey last night when he rang to say that Sykes had been taken away . |
| 18 | By the end of June , observers on the mainland of Sumatra reported that all the higher parts of Perboewetan had been blown away , and that a second eruption column was now rising from the centre of the island . |
| 19 | For two years , a pair of brothers from Oxford have been locked away in their garage putting together a car , which they hope will put the Japanese micro cars in the shade . |
| 20 | In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March . |
| 21 | Karr had been staring away almost abstractedly ; now he looked back at Chen . |
| 22 | To be deprived of freedom and of choice was the final fear , and Eleanor Thorne had been carted away like a splitting and discarded mattress beside someone 's dustbin . |
| 23 | You 'd better swear an oath of secrecy , or Nicola Schreider will not be amused to find out Guy 's been playing away even before they 're married ! ’ |
| 24 | Elton has been giving away royalties from singles including his hit , Sacrifice and his duet with George Michael , Please Do n't Let the Sun Go Down On Me . |