Example sentences of "[verb] gone from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You 'd certainly say the heart has gone from the land hereabouts , would n't you ? ’
2 The look is dazzling but transient ; in three wearings and a press the stiffness has gone from the material and the cool pastels are greyed .
3 They went in great numbers ; in a period of sixty years in the last century , some 80,000 French Basques are estimated to have gone from the region , out of a total population at any one time of 112,000 .
4 ‘ Name two players , ’ he said spontaneously , ‘ who 've gone from the Mill Field to Field Mill . ’
5 Even the hobby horse and the toy puppets had gone from the windows , leaving only the plastic holly behind .
6 All colour had gone from the landscape , leaving the ground a kind of shimmering , bright grey on which every bush and stunted tree appeared as a black silhouette .
7 The last glow had gone from the sunflowers now and they hung their heads on their spindly supports .
8 Suddenly all the magic had gone from the night and all her previous fears returned .
9 Outside , the gate had gone from the basement steps , and the slanting roof of the coal hole had fallen in , but when he looked he could see the chafed paint , those marks on the rusted railings , where once he had padlocked his motorcycle .
10 He and Margaret had gone from the consulate to a bar in the Friedrichstrasse .
11 Now the grey dew had gone from the grass , pats of dung steamed where the cattle had been standing , and Cameron , in his shirt-sleeves with a cloth tying back his long black hair , was supervising the winching up of timbers for the roof .
12 Her black hat with the little veil had gone from the shelf , and her best peep-toe shoes .
13 All the snow had gone from the tops and the sun was really warm .
14 What had gone from the attic she could only guess , for she did not remember half the things they stored there .
15 It fell to the diminutive and very tired Mr Havel to declare that a message had gone from the Forum to Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev , urging them to look closely at 1968 and the invasion when they meet next month .
16 The atmosphere had gone from the house .
17 When Tom had gone from the house , carrying a broad-bladed , long-handled shovel , Seb asked , ‘ You all right , Carrie ? ’
18 A small clock had gone from the sitting room , and a watch in a slightly mildewed case .
19 But in the past 2.5 years over 30,000 jobs have gone from the defence industry .
20 er three have gone from schools in the Easington area , three have gone from the Bretchill area , so that 's a total of what , twenty-one for September .
21 All the Smarties have gone from the plates which now have small pink morsels on .
22 I was using a figure of 1.5 million homes , but his figure is 1.9 million , half of which have gone from the council sector and the other half from the Government 's much-loved private rented sector .
23 All my bloody furniture 's gone from the living I went upstairs the lot 's gone !
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