Example sentences of "[vb past] been away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 2 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 5 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 6 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 7 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 8 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 9 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | G. E. Policemen in those days , particularly like me who had been away to sea , were a bit rough . |
| 12 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 18 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 21 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 27 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 30 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |