Example sentences of "had been [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been apart from Irina on many occasions — too many — but a permanent separation was something he still had to get used to . |
| 2 | She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive . |
| 3 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 4 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 5 | You know his father had started the company and the men , the older men in the quarry had been there from day one with him , you know from when they were producing next to nothing to being quite a profitable concern , and he realized the value of these men , and that you could n't just say , oh because they disagree with you just well , down the road pal . |