Example sentences of "have [be] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 2 | The teacher takes on a role as a member of the local council who has been away on business . |
| 3 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 4 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 5 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |
| 6 | All the services listed offer free guidance to anyone over the age of 19 who has been away from education for a significant period . |
| 7 | She may also use it as a greeting when she has been away from the kittens for a while . |
| 8 | In this sense the particular manipulation of reality found in the adventure story , at least until the past two or three decades , has been away from the practicalities of extended cohabitation , whether in or out of marriage . |
| 9 | With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word , the trend has been away from hymns , anthems and settings . |
| 10 | In music , as with other subjects , the trend has been away from regimentation towards an individual approach and small group work . |
| 11 | The trend , in recent years , has been away from a system of strict , item by item controls to broad limitations upon total borrowing . |
| 12 | But as someone who has been away from the industry for five years , I see a surprisingly rosy future for the book itself . |
| 13 | The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " . |
| 14 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 15 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 16 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 17 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 20 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 21 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 25 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 26 | And he thinks the fact that they could have been away for more than two weeks now may have been noticed by neighbours , family or friends . |
| 27 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 28 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 29 | On 30 November 1766 , having been away for over three years , the Mozarts returned to Salzburg . |
| 30 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |