Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child who has just been away from the room has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 2 | They 've got a Hennessy , but according to his secretary he has n't been away from his desk for a week . |
| 3 | She 'd never been away from home before and her new husband and in-laws were virtual strangers . |
| 4 | And what did you think plane someone who 'd never been away from |
| 5 | We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested . |
| 6 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 7 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 8 | Emily had only been away from home twice , and each time she had been very unhappy . |
| 9 | With most people homesickness was inevitable but Eva had already been away from her family for several years and had never been a person to sit and pine for long . |
| 10 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 11 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 12 | well I had n't been out from Monday till yesterday Sharon 's at the hospital now with the babe |
| 13 | I had n't been there from the age of seven without learning what went down in Roundhay . |
| 14 | She was highly strung and beautiful and had never been away from her large family or Plean — the mining village where she was born . |
| 15 | Many of the children had never been away from home before and there were inevitable bouts of homesickness but the Dreamflight team worked hard to make them feel at ease . |
| 16 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 17 | I had never been away from Joe before , and I had no idea what was going to happen to me at Miss Havisham 's . |
| 18 | And I had never been away from home because er too far from the village . |
| 19 | I had never been away from home before . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose you 're like all the rest — a city-kid who 's never been away from the busy streets before . ’ |