Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been away " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd told her I 'd been away filming in Scotland that night . ’ |
| 5 | I was just annoyed that he 'd chosen to do it while I 'd been away . |
| 6 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , Fenella takes her duties terribly seriously and would have a minute by minute report of what Springsteen had been up to while I 'd been away . |
| 8 | He 'd been practising it while I 'd been away . |
| 9 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 10 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 11 | I had been away in London for the day , about three or four days after Dana 's departure . |
| 12 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 16 | All those years I had been away . |
| 17 | I 've been away , see , since Thursday , with my Mum and Dad . |
| 18 | I 've had time to think while I 've been away . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been away so long I felt a bit like the new boy walking into the old school when I arrived at the studio for Carry On Columbus , ’ he admits . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 21 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 22 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 23 | Mr Rivers , I 've been away visiting friends , you know . |
| 24 | I forget when I 've been away . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been away too long . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been away from my part of the family since I was fifteen . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been away . ’ |
| 28 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 29 | But if I 've been away working for some time , it 's completely different . |
| 30 | He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months . |