Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] away [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " You 've been away for ages , " she says .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Do n't worry , they 've been away from England for ten years …
5 I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home
6 No , no , I have been away on business for these past few months . ’
7 Indeed , all the staff have been away on courses on this .
8 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 .
9 It seems as though we have been away for years .
10 Women who have been away from work for some time and are seeking to re-start can take the first steps to a new career at a Women Returners Event to be held tomorrow in Middlesbrough town hall crypt .
11 ‘ I have been away from Germany for almost two weeks .
12 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 .
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