Example sentences of "he had been [adv] from " in BNC.
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1 | He had been away from his wife and family for nearly two weeks now . |
2 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
3 | Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much . |
4 | He had been apart from Irina on many occasions — too many — but a permanent separation was something he still had to get used to . |
5 | In later years , Roderick confided that he had been far from happy with the title , for the book certainly was not " elementary " . |