Example sentences of "gone in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gone in no time . |
| 2 | He stands upright in the misery rain , slams the door hard and is gone in a second . |
| 3 | " It will be gone in a day or two . |
| 4 | The boy was gone in a flash . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd be gone in a flash , would n't I ? ’ |
| 6 | For just a second she thought she saw a flicker of admiration in his eyes , but it was gone in a flash , leaving her to wonder if she 'd simply imagined the look . |
| 7 | I cigarettes ( only three gone in a week ; I was winning ) from my one half-respectable navy blue blazer into my fur-lined leather bomber jacket . |
| 8 | Then he was gone in a whirl of dust and faded denim . |
| 9 | It occurred to Lyn — fleetingly , to be gone in a moment that most men would have broken such a thing more gently to their wives . |
| 10 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 11 | A part of his inheritance has gone in a number of ventures ; his books make about two and six a year . |
| 12 | It was gone in a trice , saving him from a terrible thrashing or many long hours standing in disgrace . |
| 13 | Meredith , trying to use her bump of direction thought they had gone in a circle and as far as she could tell through teeming rain and darkness , were in the middle of the open moor or common . |
| 14 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 15 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 16 | Well I would n't have thought she 'd have gone in a shop like that anyway cos there 's some more expensive stuff in there . |
| 17 | As the jeep moved away at speed I could still hear him shouting , then it was gone in a cloud of dust , road leading to the beaches to join the other wounded waiting to be shipped back to England . |
| 18 | So far , the morning has gone in a blur . |
| 19 | The smile was gone in an instant . |
| 20 | Many formations are easily snapped — quite possibly thousands of years creations gone in an instant . |
| 21 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 22 | So , perhaps , Tutilo was wishing , too , for suddenly in the midst of his most solemn determination his set mouth twisted into a wry and apprehensive smile , gone in an instant . |
| 23 | It was gone in an instant as at last he looked up at her and pushed aside the papers he 'd been leafing through . |
| 24 | The golden pavilion and the peacock feathers flared and were gone in an instant , but the Hill of Heaven took a long while to cave in , and Hell burned with a black , acrid smoke billowing out of its throat . |
| 25 | The pain was gone in an agony of ascent . |
| 26 | In 1863 , in a note written on a rare visit to England from his self-imposed exile in warmer climes , Lear apologises to Gould for not visiting him because , ‘ all my daylight hours have gone in the service of the old Enemy — Lithography . ’ |
| 27 | Certainly their substance should be accessible to anyone not so far gone in the contemplation of astrology — a science , so it is widely held , on the cogent grounds that its practitioners use computers — homeopathy , aromatherapy , or telekinesis as to be beyond the reach of reason . |
| 28 | I was also gone in the sense that I was transformed , made over . |
| 29 | Gone in the pub , could 've have asked him . |
| 30 | He 's he 's gone in the bar just for |