Example sentences of "have go away [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 2 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Mummy may have to go away for a … a little rest , James … with Cymby . |
| 5 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 6 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 7 | His liaisons with various ladies of the Kha-Khan 's court were not a matter which he had ever attempted to keep secret , and more than one irate would-be challenger — usually the father or brother of the lady in question — had gone away with a thoughtful expression on his face after witnessing a display of alien skill at arms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 10 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 11 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's gone away for a while . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |