Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] gone " in BNC.

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1 The dog is long since gone , though not , so far as I know , as a result of its encounter with the toad .
2 The elms down Vicarage Lane which once hid the tiny entrance lodge may have long since gone , and the distant kitchen garden contain only Bermudan style bungalows within its walls , but the high Regency atmosphere still remains .
3 The fresh ones are long since gone .
4 The Borrehus was long since gone : ‘ This was the site of the Borrehus from 1705–1731 .
5 Unfortunately , the galleries have long since gone , but William Green 's etching of the market place shows the gallery on the market building and one above the entrance to The Slack .
6 All this has long since gone , and the problem of rehabilitation is immense .
7 The day of the great awkward arched train shed is long since gone .
8 Most have long since gone , leaving behind their legacy of sunless , blanket afforestation .
9 True , he was no oil painting , but she had long passed the age of needing good looks about her , and anyway , she admitted to herself with disarming frankness , her own beauty had long since gone .
10 The stones of the church are dark with age and the roof has long since gone .
11 Other staff had long since gone home .
12 Although from the outside Sugar looked very complete , from the inside it was very different with much of the internal equipment fittings and instruments long since gone .
13 The days of little envelopes of happy powder being dropped into expectant palms have long since gone , and what 's taken its place ?
14 Both of these recent releases from the duo 's Threshold House label tinker with material that has long since gone out of print in an attempt to create something else .
15 Not far from there , at 7 rue Delta , he had hired a pavilion due for demolition for these artists ( it has long since gone and been replaced by a house ) .
16 The coarse grist can take as long as six months , by which time many plants that are intended to benefit will have long since gone .
17 But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished !
18 Though the sales have long since gone the mill now has a castellated top and refulgent water vane in the shape of a beer bottle .
19 The Victoria and Royal Hotels have long since gone but in addition to Petwood there is another fine looking place to stay — The Gold Hotel .
20 His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed .
21 The medieval castle has long since gone , its site occupied by the great house , built by Sir John Vanbrugh for the fourth Earl of Manchester between 1707–14 .
22 The Airds had long since gone to bed .
23 This may be inappropriate if he is very young , or long since gone , but it can be worthwhile .
24 In this town of bridges , Johnson stayed at Mackenzie 's Inn , now a supermarket , and on Sunday morning went to the English chapel , long since gone : it was a coarse little place anyway , and Mr Tait preached a sermon on Love Your Enemies .
25 The industries which used to provide employment for inner city residents have either died or long since gone to the new towns or to green field sites and industrial estates on the outskirts of the towns .
26 The days of the truly great power portrait , the majestic Victorian and Edwardian canvases that hang so solemnly in the darker corridors of the National Portrait Gallery , have long since gone .
27 The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs .
28 Jacqui 's flat was on the top floor and the bulb in the light on her landing had long since gone and not been replaced .
29 He had long since gone dead on politicians .
30 Thus I learned that Chaplin was dead and so was Elvis ( I 'd thought the former long since gone but this intelligence of Presley startled me ) , that Iranians had held Americans hostage , administered show trials and televised humiliation ; that a geriatric cowboy had become President of the mightiest nation on earth all in all , show biz news .
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