Example sentences of "had be away " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 2 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 3 | It was Major Herriott 's turn to get out of the office , having held the fort whilst his leader had been away . |
| 4 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 5 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 8 | Dot had been away and now she had come back . |
| 9 | I had been away in London for the day , about three or four days after Dana 's departure . |
| 10 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 11 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had been away from his wife and family for nearly two weeks now . |
| 14 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 15 | Hoomey thought it very weird , and longed to discuss it with somebody , but dare n't , not even to ask Gary if Nails had been away at night . |
| 16 | G. E. Policemen in those days , particularly like me who had been away to sea , were a bit rough . |
| 17 | ‘ If we had been away and had a long night-time car journey ahead of us , ’ he said , ‘ we used to put the children in their pyjamas and wrap them in blankets before we started . |
| 18 | By the age of two , which was when Princess Katherine next saw her father , the King , who had been away fighting wars in France , it was quite apparent that the Princess was deaf . |
| 19 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 20 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 21 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 22 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 23 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 24 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 25 | They had not entirely forgotten him back home , then , although he had been away 37 years . |
| 26 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 29 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 30 | When I had been away , I would swear , even if I were blind , I 'd have known I was home again the moment the door was opened , from the smell of the wood-burning fire . |