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

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1 He will be gone about a month and on his return we shall go to Sydney as quickly as we can …
2 Why it 's cool to be gone with the wind .
3 Arthur would be gone on the stroke of nine , and Ann too , if it was possible .
4 It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally .
5 All this will be gone into a lot more detail on the training course .
6 She wanted to be gone before the police arrived and Ayling did not press her with convincing enthusiasm .
7 THE Welsh may be gone after the Murrayfield rugby international , but so is many a trophy from many an Edinburgh bar .
8 Of course , belonging may be gone by the board , historically speaking , she advises herself , wiping her face with this American paper dinner napkin and not wishing to be personal , to use a bygone phrase .
9 And , as I stooped to get back under cover , I recalled that there would , even from the sanest , be a concession to superstition that would be gone by the morning , a belief that the beginning of the year foreshadowed the character of the rest .
10 The travellers have promised they 'll be gone by the end of the weekend .
11 ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’
12 I 'll be gone by the time you wake up in the morning .
13 ‘ You said you 'd be gone by the time I got up . ’
14 Only 7 nuns remain at Bartestree and they 'll be gone by the time auctioneers sell off the contents of the convent in 3 weeks time .
15 Only 7 nuns remain at Bartestree and they 'll be gone by the time auctioneers sell off the contents of the convent in 3 weeks time .
16 " It will be gone in a day or two .
17 I 'd be gone in a flash , would n't I ? ’
18 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 .
19 They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning .
20 He could be gone from the town . ’
21 I 'm gone to the shop .
22 With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them .
23 But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’
24 The others had been gone for an hour by the time she was ready to leave .
25 But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for .
26 The shock of her discovery and his malevolent thoughts of her were gone with the lessening of the storm .
27 Some of the galleries were gone before the days of my earliest memory , and all of them were hastening to decay . ’
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Nine months after walking into Elland Road to be acclaimed as a hero , he is gone amid a wave of Yorkshire revulsion .
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