Example sentences of "[be] away [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometime in the future you may wish to let your home whilst you are away for six months or more . |
| 2 | Since an empty house is more of a challenge to burglars and squatters than one where there is lots of activity , you ca n't expect a rebate on your house and contents insurance — in fact your insurance company may even charge an extra premium if you are away for more than30 days . |
| 3 | If you are away for several weeks your phone bill should be much lower than normal and you will automatically receive a Low User Rental Rebate . |
| 4 | I am away for four weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ I am away for eight months a year and we hardly see each other . |
| 6 | It 's not been away at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 10 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 11 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 12 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 13 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 14 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 15 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 16 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 17 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 18 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 19 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 23 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 24 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 25 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 26 | The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " . |
| 27 | You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | This year has been hard work for us , and for our trainees , some of whom have been away from formal education for some time . |
| 29 | The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 30 | That 's it , you 're away into deep water and sailing happily . |