Example sentences of "[be] gone a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not going to be gone a fortnight , I hope . |
| 2 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 3 | ‘ He could be gone a long time , you know . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You said you 'd be gone a week , perhaps longer . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 6 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 7 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 8 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 10 | He 's been gone a month or more . ’ |
| 11 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 12 | He 's been gone a long time |
| 13 | They were gone a long time . |
| 14 | and yet there 's another week left , one of which were gone a week into er the last week of February that er |
| 15 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 16 | He was gone a fair while . |
| 17 | Anyway , he was gone a few minutes , and he came back smelling — you know . |