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Example sentences for "been away"

  • This is the first time since you've been away.

  • I've been away," Michael answered, with a certain amount of embarrassment.

  • She's been away to Italy--is there a place called Italy?

  • I don't know what they've done since I've been away.

  • Things have changed since I've been away--eh?

  • Full many a day hath he been away, Yet scarce had he crossed ayont the sea, Ere a spruce young spark of a Learned Clerk Had called on his Lady, and stopp'd to tea.

  • Why, what has happened to you while I've been away?

  • Have you been fishing much since I've been away, Maurice?

  • I dare say you have got out of regular habits while I've been away.

  • You can't think how often I've dreamed of our rides since I've been away!

  • You've been away from it so long that it doesn't know you, and has become estranged.

  • You've been away so long that you needn't mind waiting a day longer.

  • It often seems like a dream, when I think that I've been away; and it's well that it's past.

  • Has any one been here while I've been away?

  • Didn't you think that I should miss you while you've been away?

  • Tell me, Uncle Colin, what have you been doing while you've been away--eh?

  • You've been away months--ever since the beginning of the winter!

  • And I've done it all in this year you've been away.

  • They would meet other people they knew, who had similarly enjoyed themselves, and would cry: "Have you been away?

  • I've been away a long time," I would answer apologetically.

  • Well, while he'd been away--this thing came.

  • I've been away," said Victoria, gently taking the woman's hand and sitting down on the doorstep.

  • You see, I've been away in the country for some time, and I must hurry back home.

  • I've been away so long, still that doesn't make any difference, does it?

  • I've got a thousand things to do, and probably everything's been going to the devil while I've been away.

  • I've made up my mind since I've been away.

  • Well, have the lovers bored you to death with their spooning since I've been away?

  • An' now tell me what's happened while I been away.

  • I reckon you've been away so long you'll be kind o' glad to see the inside of the old cabin again; hey?

  • Seems as if I'd been away a week," he said, wearily.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been allowed; been committed; been decreed; been described; been discovered; been doin; been engaged; been formed; been given; been going; been havin; been here; been married; been observed; been produced; been saying; been talking; been telling; been thinking; been through; been trying; been written; cold mutton; little sand; much mistaken; three miles