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

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1 By the mid-80s they had all gone the way of the buffalo : extinct save for preservation in the national park of permanent re-runs .
2 Once a golden brown staple , crisp on the outside and creamy within , it has gone the way of all flesh .
3 In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect .
4 Even Johnny Carey , the club captain and reckoned to be the most versatile player of all time ( he had played in ten positions for United including goalkeeper ) , finished his working life modestly in the treasurer 's office of Trafford Borough Council after having gone the way of all managers in the grip of impatient and often ignorant directors .
5 Once famed as ‘ Baghdad by the Bay ’ in the days when such an appellation was a compliment , San Francisco has gone the way of many major U.S. cities and is burdened by a high number of homeless and beggars , and rising crime .
6 Or so I thought , until I read this week that Prince Charles , who was held up to my by that selfsame grandmother as a paragon , has apparently gone the way of the rest of our post-war generation .
7 Dingle , in the wild West , could have gone the way of Killarney , but this tourist town has n't sold its soul .
8 These makeshifts are now attracting the serious collectors who once paid huge sums for classics that have now gone the way of brown polyester suits .
9 Now , it would appear , he has gone the way of all satirists , tempted beyond all self-control by the hope of a TV adaptation starring David Jason , if he is lucky , or Keith Barron , if he is not .
10 It had , of course , gone the way of all their parties he could remember and turned into an excuse for grown-up drinking , talk , dancing and all that cuddling and kissing stuff he inescapably associated with his mother .
11 Then , in the 1950s and 1960s , it became highly controversial ; it has now gone the way of all controversial terms — it is too highly charged to be useful .
12 Firstly , just by supplying paradigm instances of high and low art , he has gone no way towards showing that there is not an area of genuine indeterminacy in between .
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