What is human movement in the absence of the body?

Let us see if anything has changed in my absence.

In his absence the team did three times more work.

You never know what they might be up to in your absence.

He needed to find out what had happened in his absence.

In their absence he couldn't think of what to say.

I know nothing of what has happened in my absence.

In my absence he had won her away from me.

In his absence, the case against him took on a new life.

The case will be heard in his absence next month.