Example sentences of "'ve be away [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’
2 Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be .
3 And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time .
4 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 .
5 We 've been away for a long time .
6 " You 've been away for ages , " she says .
7 ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’
8 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 .
9 I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read .
10 I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to .
11 No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I 've spoken to Kevin Moran when we 've been away with the Republic of Ireland and he says things there are quite relaxed .
15 During the time that you 've been away from work you have certainly not been ‘ not working ’ — you have undertaken a whole host of activities which happen to have been unpaid .
16 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 .
17 Do n't worry , they 've been away from England for ten years …
18 I 've been away from my part of the family since I was fifteen .
19 And , of course , the job will get worse the longer you 've been away from the office .
20 You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’
21 In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years .
22 I think that 's not uncommon actually if you , when you get people who 've , who 've been away from the education system for a f a few years and I think it 's almost like mature students do have more anxiety than people who come straight from school generally speaking I think erm
23 I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home
24 Anything you say dear , you 've been away in the san , you 've been out
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