Example sentences of "[verb] been away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | G. E. Policemen in those days , particularly like me who had been away to sea , were a bit rough . |
| 32 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 33 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 34 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 35 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 38 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 39 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 40 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 41 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | While I had been away at the Wye , the silver-grey had either moved her family to a new nest of had fallen foul of a fisherman 's trap . |
| 44 | He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 47 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 48 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 49 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 50 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 51 | I had been away in London for the day , about three or four days after Dana 's departure . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | He had been away from his wife and family for nearly two weeks now . |
| 56 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 57 | She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive . |
| 58 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 59 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 60 | Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much . |