Example sentences of "gone [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Certainly not Chrissie Rogers let's face it , if she was going to leave she would have gone the day AFTER the ceremony . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Once a golden brown staple , crisp on the outside and creamy within , it has gone the way of all flesh . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dingle , in the wild West , could have gone the way of Killarney , but this tourist town has n't sold its soul . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 14 | just gone the road with Bev ! |
| 15 | Even Harvey — who had a dark complexion — had gone the colour of a boiled lobster . |
| 16 | Round and round in her head had gone the memory of the evening , undoubtedly the most magical evening of her life , but tarnished now by the memory of how it had ended , with Guido 's crude brush-off and her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else . |
| 17 | and digging stuff out of there then after he 'd gone the whole with all the dairy round it it was sprouting with er . |
| 18 | Long gone the exhilaration of attacking another aircraft , now this feeling was replaced by the real struggle of man against machine . |
| 19 | She felt as she always did , not fear , but a kind of cold , dead calm , the way you might feel in a car in which the brakes have gone the moment before the crash . |
| 20 | Gone is the need for speedy , athletic fleeing , gone the need for eternal alertness and high-strung sensitivity to every tiny hint of danger . |
| 21 | ‘ You have to remember that with Tweed gone the post of Deputy Director becomes vacant . ’ |
| 22 | Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it . |
| 23 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 24 | Mr Michael Lyons , duty administrator at Guy 's , said they looked as if they had ‘ gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 25 | just gone a couple of minutes over , let's go and . |
| 26 | He was straining hard now , and still nothing was happening ; everything had gone a couple of shades darker , and the roaring in his ears drowned out everything else . |
| 27 | ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 28 | Humble clerks who have gone a bust on clothes for marriageable daughters are outraged but too timid to protest . |
| 29 | They 've gone a lot of funny ways , the Cauldhames and their associates by marriage , but to the best of my knowledge a gun has never crossed one off . |
| 30 | and yet there 's another week left , one of which were gone a week into er the last week of February that er |