Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] go [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.

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1 hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ?
2 The brashness had gone out of the sunlight , and the air had a chill .
3 Local accountability has gone out of the window ; Ministers no longer even talk about it , because they know that it is not a reality .
4 If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ?
5 The court hinted that the accused was guilty even though not all of the goodness had gone out of the property .
6 ‘ The reason we have had so many problems of late is that the fizz has gone out of the market , ’ Abrahams says .
7 The other children pulled his leg and generally teased him about what he had seen but the child strenuously defended his story ; somehow the fun had gone out of the adventure and they decided to return home .
8 All the fun had gone out of the game .
9 Certainly the sting had gone out of the words ; I could think of them without being quite so ashamed .
10 We believe that the principle of accountability in local democracy has gone out of the window under this Government .
11 All the shine had gone out of the evening .
12 And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary .
13 At best , he would now only send fresh generals against the Christian force ; but even after El Cid 's death , much of the heart had gone out of the Moorish invaders .
14 The heart had gone out of the day .
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