Example sentences of "[verb] been go [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’
2 A native-born Moldavian despite his Russian name , Mr Pyotr Luchinsky , the new first secretary has been going the rounds , talking to people in soothing terms all over the republic .
3 Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic …
4 In the two days since the men had been gone the girls had become close friends , beginning from the moment Joanna had knocked timidly on the solar door soon after Guy had left .
5 ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’
6 aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month
7 He 's been gone a month or more . ’
8 That 's been gone a long time now .
9 He 's been gone a long time
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