Example sentences of "[been] [coord] gone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I have been and gone and done it this time . |
| 2 | Now that the Spanish race has been and gone , it is a matter of clearing Mansell 's name and it would seem that the evidence offered gave the court food for thought . |
| 3 | The whole Creation aesthetic seems based in the sad conviction that rock is over , it 's been and gone , and all that 's left is to uphold the legacy through the Dark Ages of Plastic Pop . |
| 4 | A free spirit has been and gone . |
| 5 | The controversial policy of gassing entire badger populations known to be infected with TB has been and gone , and today two lines of research are being followed . |
| 6 | The first anniversaries , birthdays , Christmas and other special events have been and gone and the grieving person has survived these especially difficult days . |
| 7 | Some competitions have been and gone , others altered , some dropped and re-instated , whilst yet others have become inter-linked with other competitions , some with superb prizes but no trophies ! |
| 8 | By 1815 , a brief postwar upsurge in trade had been and gone and in the same year they went bankrupt . |
| 9 | Kom Ombo and Edfu , like the fitness of my charges , have been and gone , and now at Esna a few determined explorers rattle by horse-drawn carriage towards the town centre at 6am . |
| 10 | Bina , you 've been and gone and done it ! ’ |
| 11 | Death had been and gone , but it was still in the air , like static . |
| 12 | He 's been and gone and sold it ! |
| 13 | He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone . |
| 14 | It 's really ironic that suddenly people from The Independent are really into it because it 's safe to be behind something that 's been and gone and proved its worth . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's been and gone and smashed Margaret Lacey 's face in ! ’ |
| 16 | By the time you read this , the IBM PC 's 10th birthday will have been and gone . |
| 17 | My old inspector who 's now been and gone , came from Newark , and he said that there was far more trouble within the public houses in Newark , er than ever there was here and he came here , imagining the problem to be a lot worse . |
| 18 | By that time , we thought , he must have been and gone again . |
| 19 | They 'd never know that we 'd been and gone . |
| 20 | The doctor had been and gone by the time Maxim reached the little cottage on the hillside above Caswell 's father-in-law 's garage . |
| 21 | By the time of Safdarjung 's death , the Persian Nadir Shah had been and gone , carrying with him the accumulated riches of eight generations of Empire . |
| 22 | Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them . |
| 23 | Now he 'd been and gone and done it . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ he said in the new year , a couple of days after term had started , ‘ I 've certainly been and gone and upset Nerina , of all people . |
| 25 | And worse still the binman had also been and gone . |
| 26 | The surgeon has been and gone , he reckons death probably took place early in the night ; the coroner has been informed , and the scenes-of-crime chaps are on the job … ’ |
| 27 | One o'clock had been and gone , and it was approaching two . |
| 28 | The show 's critics have said apart from the racist slur , the Minstrel idea has been and gone . |
| 29 | It is introduced by looking back at the events which took place at Navron through the eyes of a ‘ trespasser in time ’ observing the memories that still haunt the place after Dona and the others have been and gone . |
| 30 | Been and gone . |