Example sentences of "had [adv] been away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 2 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 3 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 4 | Emily had only been away from home twice , and each time she had been very unhappy . |
| 5 | With most people homesickness was inevitable but Eva had already been away from her family for several years and had never been a person to sit and pine for long . |
| 6 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 7 | She was highly strung and beautiful and had never been away from her large family or Plean — the mining village where she was born . |
| 8 | Many of the children had never been away from home before and there were inevitable bouts of homesickness but the Dreamflight team worked hard to make them feel at ease . |
| 9 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 10 | I had never been away from Joe before , and I had no idea what was going to happen to me at Miss Havisham 's . |
| 11 | And I had never been away from home because er too far from the village . |
| 12 | I had never been away from home before . |