Example sentences of "have [verb] away for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard hugs her , and has to look away for a moment , he is so moved . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 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 | Jean Parmiter sent her apologies for being unable to teach as arranged ; she and her husband had had to go away for the weekend . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 'd mentioned Pépin Le Bref , or Madame sans Géne , he 'd have prattled away for hours ! |
| 7 | Mummy may have to go away for a … a little rest , James … with Cymby . |
| 8 | He could not have stayed away for long because in June of that year he was captured by the Dragoons in Knockdow House in Carrick and confined on the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth to await trial . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll turn you in , arrange police protection , perhaps the family 'll have to move away for a while , but — ‘ |
| 10 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 13 | She remembered the rook or crow sitting in the hedge the night she had come away for ever . |
| 14 | Shoaib Mohammad — son of Hanif — had beavered away for just over three hours by now , displaying some pleasing strokes , not unduly encumbered by helmet and sizable rib-protector , seven centuries , three of them doubles , already quietly under his belt in 38 previous Tests . |
| 15 | In the last two cases , decisive and successive election defeats convinced the party leaders that the centre of electoral opinion had moved away for them . |
| 16 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 20 | Mary and Reggie had gone away for the weekend , and would not be back until evening . |
| 21 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I 've sent away for it . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 25 | The week after next I have to go away for two weeks . ’ |
| 26 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 27 | They feel that the ‘ rainy day ’ for which they have worked and saved for so long has now arrived , and they fear that they may , at any time , have to dip into whatever nest-egg they have tucked away for emergencies . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's gone away for a while . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |