Example sentences of "who have [been] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 2 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 3 | But as someone who has been away from the industry for five years , I see a surprisingly rosy future for the book itself . |
| 4 | 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' . |
| 5 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 6 | Was that you ? ’ she demanded , confronting Tal , who 'd been nowhere near the switch . |
| 7 | Was that you ? ’ she demanded , confronting Tal , who 'd been nowhere near the switch . |
| 8 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 9 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 10 | I think that 's not uncommon actually if you , when you get people who 've , who 've been away from the education system for a f a few years and I think it 's almost like mature students do have more anxiety than people who come straight from school generally speaking I think erm |
| 11 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 12 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 13 | Wallington flourished under a headmaster who had been there before the War , who grew roses under the class-room windows , and trees around the playing-field . |
| 14 | The youngest of the trio — he was a-twenty-seven-year-old ex-seminarian who had been greatly under the influence of Molloy before going to Africa — began to sing , in a terrible , faltering voice , probably the most unmelodious I ever heard from a Danuese what sounded like the first lines of ‘ O , Mighty Mountain ! ’ |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ I say to people to come and see Ireland for themselves because if they come they 'll never want to leave — like others who have been here from the North-East of England . |
| 17 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 18 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |