Example sentences of "have [verb] away [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Frankenstein has to go away to make it . ’ |
| 2 | A strand of hair which normally covers his bald patch has fallen away to rest in seaweedy strings on his padded shoulder , drying as we speak . |
| 3 | The enclosing matrix is a fine-grained sandstone , and the original calcite shell material has dissolved away to leave impressions of the shells on the sandstone . |
| 4 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 5 | Before breakfast on Saturday 18 August 1759 Boscawen was in sight of his quarry , or part of it , for eight of the Frenchmen had broken away to make for Cadiz . |
| 6 | What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters . |
| 7 | The once gleaming whitewash was dark and smoke-blackened ; in places the plaster had fallen away to reveal the messy rubble-walling beneath . |
| 8 | The price of a loaf of bread was several hours labour and both the miller and the domestic baker had to slog away to procuce a loaf . |
| 9 | After Millie had flounced away to do her bidding , Aggie said , ‘ She came in that yard as white as a sheet . |
| 10 | Mrs Bennet had hurried away to check on her house but was soon back . |
| 11 | It seemed like hours since she had slipped away to find Ace , but nothing had changed much . |
| 12 | It had been a blow to learn that he had gone away to spend Christmas with ‘ friends in the country ’ , and she imagined him surrounded by fascinating girls all more attractive than herself . |
| 13 | Volkov had gone away to think . |
| 14 | She had gone away to escape Lowell , but the cottage was part of both of them and it was demanding her presence . |
| 15 | Nana 's form was to skip the next two hundred years of Jamaican history and tell Martha how her husband had gone away to work in Panama and never come back , and how Martha 's own father was in America now . |
| 16 | Certainly Frankenstein had gone away to study — to Ingoldstadt , I now knew — and there spent some years researching into the nature of life . |
| 17 | He had gone away to get more ammunition and fired twice more . |
| 18 | Immediately you put in another claim , and the insurance company turns round and says hard luck mate , you 've signed away to say that was the settlement for that injury for once and all time and we wo n't accept another claim for the same injury . |
| 19 | The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action . |
| 20 | Ashley waited until their fellow diners had drifted away to explore the gardens or dip their hands in the cool water which tinkled in the stone fountains , and then moved her chair closer to her escort 's . |
| 21 | The weight of gear hanging form my harness does n't bother me , because all my worries have fallen away to spend the day sulking at the foot of the crag . |
| 22 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 23 | The route may never be the same again , however , because this year the normal upper snowfields have melted away to reveal rather unpleasant rock slabs . |
| 24 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 25 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
| 26 | And I expect he 's gone away to get them printed now |
| 27 | Erm and so I guess he 's gone away to get some made . |
| 28 | The sycophants have drifted away to find new lords to flatter ; what they left behind them now looks merely empty and vainglorious . |