Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | On February 15th President F.W. de Klerk announced that most of the remaining obstacles to constitutional negotiations with the African National Congress ( ANC ) had been cleared away . |
| 2 | When their last remains had been cleared away , the depôt was leased to a potted meat manufacturer on 29 September 1936 . |
| 3 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 4 | The rubble had been cleared away long ago , and a line drawn between houses that were lived in , and blank space . |
| 5 | ‘ That was a fabulous meal , ’ she declared enthusiastically after the pudding plates had been cleared away . |
| 6 | By the time police arrived most of the evidence had been cleared away . |
| 7 | Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack , said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 13 | The back of Montague 's head had been blown away , but his face still wore an idiot 's grin , as if he were laughing in his sleep , mouth wide open . |
| 14 | Rebus and Osvaldo had been blown away from each other some three metres . |
| 15 | Most of his face had been blown away and he had fractures of his skull , said Mr Taylor . |
| 16 | The entire shop front had been blown away and the ceiling was badly damaged . |
| 17 | She had been sent away to school soon after this , so she had not noticed the beginning of the gradual retrenchment which had resulted in extreme economy . |
| 18 | Often these children had no idea why they had been sent away . |
| 19 | Mrs Gracie had been sent away . |
| 20 | A number of teachers had been sent away from our area , too ; some off them as far away as Naples . |
| 21 | Thérèse knew that she had been sent away from her parents at the age of two months , to be fed by Rose , that she had lived with Rose for sixteen months . |
| 22 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 23 | There were other things he would not tell her either , such as the reason he had been called away from the restaurant . |
| 24 | Anna chattered on and on , explaining that Nicolo had been called away early on business . |
| 25 | And it was quite possible , she supposed , that he or his secretary could have phoned Verity magazine in London last Wednesday to leave a message that he had been called away . |
| 26 | Before setting off , when all had been packed away , I unwittingly slipped my clip-on sun-glasses into my back pocket . |
| 27 | The fishing nets and the postcards were no longer on display , and the woollens and the charming useless pottery had been packed away for the coming winter and the new season to follow-then they were out of the village , passing through a scattering of newer and less substantial houses and following the narrow lakeside road to Langstone . |
| 28 | In other parts of the Americas , settlers had been done away with , by what means nobody later could discover , for new arrivals would find the incomers ' stockade deserted , with not a sign of struggle . |
| 29 | The Sultan had since abdicated , the Caliphate had been abolished , the Dervish orders had been suppressed and most traditional ceremonies and pageantry had been done away with . |
| 30 | One side of the cart had been cut away and a plank balanced in front , on carpenter 's trestles loaned free and willingly . |