Example sentences of "gone [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the bomb had gone off a minute later I would have been right next to it . ’
2 As soon as they see their names on the leaderboard they worry themselves to death until their name 's gone off the board .
3 ‘ And I 've gone off the idea of throwing things in the water .
4 It felt heavy and lifeless , in much the same way as it had felt that day in Spain when he had gone off the road .
5 It was the place where the coach had gone off the road twenty years before .
6 But I think once they 've gone off the road now it 's gon na be gon na be worse when the , when the engine stops ?
7 He 's gone off the air . ’
8 Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board .
9 Gone off the top !
10 She has recently left home , and whenever they talk about her my parents ' voices are disapproving , as if she has gone off the rails in some way which they do n't specify .
11 Has something gone off the rails here ?
12 But it was the news pages that had really gone off the rails .
13 THE DUKE of Westminster , said to be Britain 's richest man , has resigned from the Conservative Party , claiming it has gone off the rails .
14 The 41-year-old duke said last night : ‘ I can not morally stay within a party which I fundamentally believe has ideologically gone off the rails . ’
15 The West coast side have gone off the rails in recent weeks following successive defeats by Western and Hazlehead but as the cup is realistically their last chance of glory this term they will certainly not concede defeat from the want of effort .
16 ‘ He 's one of those wimps who ca n't muddle along without a woman and he 's gone off the duck so he 's come back here . ’
17 The Electoral Reform Society believes most of those who have gone off the rolls are potential Labour supporters , if only because of their assumed strong opposition to the poll tax .
18 ‘ Blackburn have gone off the track a little , which opens the door .
19 ‘ That 's my best performance of the season attitude wise , ’ said Parrott , who has gone off the boil since opening the current campaign with tournament wins in China and Dubai .
20 Even extortion has gone off the boil .
21 Now it appears to have gone off the boil .
22 and I suppose I should of gone off the Thursday night
23 Most of it is ‘ Convent'-ional and so far ‘ Nun ’ of it has gone off the books !
24 I laughed , and she 'd gone off the line before I could ask her about her health .
25 We have that many er applications I mean I 've just gone through A division and I 've got er a pile of cards literally an inch thick with people a made an initial inquiry or b they 've been furnished with questionnaires and not been returned , so I 'm sending those er right through the divisions
26 Gunn argues that Nina should have gone through a second , refurbishing phase , to bring it in line with the German accelerator , Desy .
27 I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’
28 ‘ Before contracting the illness I had already gone through a nightmare year with injuries .
29 Before her mother 's house she had gone through a winter in a squat that had no heating at all .
30 It would have made no difference if the ironmonger 's door had been shut instead of open , and the ox had pushed its way through , or had gone through a plateglass window .
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