Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have been away from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 2 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 3 | If you have been away from nurse education for some time you will be very pleasantly surprised by the much more interactive and civilised approach to learning apparent in most schools and colleges of nursing . |
| 4 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 5 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 6 | Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much . |
| 7 | She may also use it as a greeting when she has been away from the kittens for a while . |