Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word , the trend has been away from hymns , anthems and settings . |
| 5 | In music , as with other subjects , the trend has been away from regimentation towards an individual approach and small group work . |
| 6 | 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 . |