Example sentences of "we have been without " in BNC.

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1 The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka .
2 ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’
3 We 've been without a Marshal nearly four months — not that I ca n't cope , but you know how it is when half the boys we get are on National Service and by the time you 've begun to knock them into shape they 're ready to leave . ’
4 We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital .
5 Both recalled the funeral , calculated time : a month , already , when we have been without her .
6 We have been without food before , when the chimney came through the roof last year . ’
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