Example sentences of "[verb] been away for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 4 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On 30 November 1766 , having been away for over three years , the Mozarts returned to Salzburg . |
| 13 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 14 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 15 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 16 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 17 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 18 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 19 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 20 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 21 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 22 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 24 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 25 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 26 | And er if it 's more convenient , if you 've got er a lengthy inquiry , call into any tax office , the nearest one , I 've even called into tax offices when we 've been away for a weekend , just to pick up brochures and things like that . |
| 27 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 28 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 29 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |