Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been away " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dot had been away and now she had come back . |
| 2 | David 's been away all week ? |
| 3 | David 's been away |
| 4 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 5 | Hoomey thought it very weird , and longed to discuss it with somebody , but dare n't , not even to ask Gary if Nails had been away at night . |
| 6 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 7 | Stephen has been away so much , and is so obsessed with building another hotel , we eat , sleep and drink it . ’ |
| 8 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 9 | It was Major Herriott 's turn to get out of the office , having held the fort whilst his leader had been away . |
| 10 | When she had gone Christina thumbed through her diary , glancing at cancelled events and big gaps where Stephen had been away . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
| 12 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 13 | The 18 months that Del Amitri have been away from the spotlight have n't been wasted and they 've come up with some belting songs to prove it . |
| 14 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 15 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 16 | ‘ Now we desperately need to get our home form sorted out because three of our four League wins this season have been away . |
| 17 | Indeed , all the staff have been away on courses on this . |
| 18 | With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word , the trend has been away from hymns , anthems and settings . |
| 19 | In music , as with other subjects , the trend has been away from regimentation towards an individual approach and small group work . |
| 20 | He had stayed on during the war only because so many doctors had been away , engaged in service to the country . |
| 21 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 22 | Erika has been away plenty of times , and if Fräulein Silber thinks that it is the right thing to do then it is the right thing . |
| 23 | The average time away from work for a woman who leaves to raise a family is eight years , and 30 per cent of women attending the Dow-Stoker Returners courses have been away from the workplace for over fifteen years . |
| 24 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 25 | While the unit had been away in the field , the usual correspondence was being exchanged between the various staffs involved , almost certainly without Stirling 's knowledge . |
| 26 | and dad 's been away so I 've sold Peter a few cars . |
| 27 | Our dad 's been away . |
| 28 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 29 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 30 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |