Example sentences of "had been away [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 2 | While I had been away at the Wye , the silver-grey had either moved her family to a new nest of had fallen foul of a fisherman 's trap . |
| 3 | He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight . |
| 4 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much . |