Example sentences of "[be] gone a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 2 | ‘ He could be gone a long time , you know . ’ |
| 3 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 4 | He 's been gone a long time |
| 5 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 6 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 7 | They were gone a long time . |
| 8 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 9 | Anyway , he was gone a few minutes , and he came back smelling — you know . |
| 10 | He was gone a fair while . |