Example sentences of "go missing [prep] " in BNC.

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1 money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money !
2 She was found , frozen , in a ditch beside the busy A 34 , after going missing for 4 days and nights .
3 ‘ Had any further trouble with things going missing in skips ? ’
4 The old entrance certainly had some memories … the great American Band leader Glenn Miller walked through it to play his last engagement before going missing in an aeroplane …
5 Also , the UK Customs people seem to have a penchant for opening packages with disks in , and whilst I 've never heard of anything going missing from such a package , they never seem to have grasped the idea that magnets and x-rays do n't mix well with floppy disks .
6 Q I know that stock is going missing from the stock room and I 've tried to prove who 's doing it by various means without success .
7 It 's pretty odd , is n't it , one of Dora 's clubs going missing like that .
8 He suggested the striker was lacking in desire , suggesting he had gone missing during the game against United , and saying he had not been the same since playing for England against Turkey a fortnight ago .
9 Aid workers from the Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford had apparently gone missing for 4 days in the war zone .
10 ‘ Not to mention one of our staff members , Tom Wilmot , gone missing with that bloody ship . ’
11 Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open .
12 He seems to have gone missing at about the time your body was discovered . "
13 He 'll not be a minute , ’ she explained to Mungo , ‘ only we 've a bantam gone missing on the batters .
14 He has gone missing on previous occasions but he has always returned within a short time .
15 She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home .
16 Sir Roy Watts , the Chairman of Thames Water , has gone missing after being dropped off at his flat in London .
17 Mr Davison , normally from Dulverton Avenue in Swindon , had gone missing after a pub fight in Carshalton .
18 A hunt has been launched for a German lorry driver who 's gone missing after arriving in England with a load of melons .
19 A hunt has been launched for a German lorry driver who 's gone missing after arriving in England with a load of melons .
20 The mother of two had gone missing after a blazing row with her estranged husband , Jonathan , at his home in Longney , just a mile from where she was found dead .
21 The sources said almost all the documents which had turned up appeared to have gone missing before the 1988 change .
22 ‘ She has never gone missing before so this is unusual . ’
23 They claimed that records of tests which nurses said they carried out on Mrs Bennett had gone missing from the Royal , and details of her case presented to the coroner differed from what they had been told .
24 A sum of $3.5 million had gone missing from the first shipment of TOW missiles in 1985 and a further $24 million could not be accounted for from one of North 's Swiss bank accounts .
25 When the court resumed at 2.30 , Mr John Lawrence , who had acted as stage manager at Reading , gave some inconsequential evidence which inferred that Drew was a violent man and also that a gun had gone missing from the stage props .
26 Both had gone missing from a centre for disturbed youngsters in Newton Aycliffe , Co .
27 Recently Viking Mbus modules , Sparcstation 10 memory and 500 Sparc 2 boards have gone missing from the warehouse .
28 He worries at the extent to which known Felix pictures have disappeared in the last 30 years , and can detail those that have gone missing from Brighton , The Oval and a Piccadilly pub .
29 ’ About a valuable objet gone missing from the planet Ardakke .
30 ‘ She might have gone missing from wherever she works . ’
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