Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 8 | I had been away in London for the day , about three or four days after Dana 's departure . |
| 9 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 11 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 12 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 13 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 14 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 15 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 16 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 've been away from my part of the family since I was fifteen . |
| 19 | No , no , I have been away on business for these past few months . ’ |
| 20 | Since I have been away at Scarborough on holiday I got the YEP every day and the special Leeds edition that they do every season . |
| 21 | Each letter , and how many there seemed now , for she had kept each note , even the hastiest ( ‘ half past two a.m. , Dearest , I have been away from you only fifteen minutes and already I am dreaming of my dearest Lily and our next happy meeting ! ’ ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been away from Germany for almost two weeks . |
| 23 | She may also use it as a greeting when she has been away from the kittens for a while . |
| 24 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 25 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 26 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 27 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 28 | During the time that you 've been away from work you have certainly not been ‘ not working ’ — you have undertaken a whole host of activities which happen to have been unpaid . |
| 29 | And , of course , the job will get worse the longer you 've been away from the office . |
| 30 | You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’ |