Example sentences of "[verb] been away [prep] [adj] " 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 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 5 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 6 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 11 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 12 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 13 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 14 | The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’ |
| 20 | This year has been hard work for us , and for our trainees , some of whom have been away from formal education for some time . |
| 21 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |