Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [been] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 2 | The teacher takes on a role as a member of the local council who has been away on business . |
| 3 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 4 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 5 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 6 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |