Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been away for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 5 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 6 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 9 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 10 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 11 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 12 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 13 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 17 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 21 | And er if it 's more convenient , if you 've got er a lengthy inquiry , call into any tax office , the nearest one , I 've even called into tax offices when we 've been away for a weekend , just to pick up brochures and things like that . |
| 22 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 23 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
| 24 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 25 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had been away for some hours . |