Example sentences of "[been] away [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose you 're like all the rest — a city-kid who 's never been away from the busy streets before . ’ |
| 5 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |