Example sentences of "gone from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The hovels and the vennels ’ of the nineteenth-century Scottish city have been projected into the sky ; the lower depths of the Thirties have not gone from urban Britain . |
| 2 | Among the few Standish neighbours on the row is Eric , long gone from the closet and married to Stevie , a he-man former semi-film-star , whom he eventually stabs . |
| 3 | Now the grey dew had gone from the grass , pats of dung steamed where the cattle had been standing , and Cameron , in his shirt-sleeves with a cloth tying back his long black hair , was supervising the winching up of timbers for the roof . |
| 4 | ‘ Within 30 years the brewing industry has gone from a cottage industry to high tech . ’ |
| 5 | As a septuagenarian , he made the trip to Ireland on the back of his son Eon 's motor-bike to find the Killarney Fern — long since believed gone from its single recorded site on Moel Hebog in Snowdonia . |
| 6 | Before a demoralising defeat when challenging Mike Tyson for the world heavyweight championship two years ago Biggs would have probably been too dangerous a proposition for Mason but something has gone from him since then and he was unable to fulfil bold pre-fight assertions . |
| 7 | She was waving to us , her face very serious ; we turned into the road and she was gone from view . |
| 8 | The wren-boys who had gone from house to house on the lorry all day were now scrubbed and combed , playing away cheerfully on raised planks . |
| 9 | The sensationalist side of sports reporting has gone from strength to strength in the popular press since the advent of television . |
| 10 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 11 | We have gone from being the bread basket of Central America to being its basket case ; an international beggar with the largest per capita foreign debt in Latin America . |
| 12 | It fell to the diminutive and very tired Mr Havel to declare that a message had gone from the Forum to Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev , urging them to look closely at 1968 and the invasion when they meet next month . |
| 13 | Even so Edinburgh Academicals have provided Sole with a solid platform from which he has gone from strength to strength , culminating in three Tests and a series triumph for the Lions . |
| 14 | In a day that saw 100 minutes of playing time lost , first to crowd trouble and then to the weather , Wasim Akram finished with five for 101 after the tourists had gone from 181 for three overnight to 324 all out . |
| 15 | The Soviet economy has gone from bad to chaos . |
| 16 | Gone from the top 20 are BP , Carlton Communications , Grand Metropolitan , M&G and Pilkington ; so , thanks to a stalled property market , are Greycoat , Rosehaugh and Tarmac . |
| 17 | Now the South Africans have gone from Angola , and its government is reforming in ways that quite please the Americans . |
| 18 | Her black hat with the little veil had gone from the shelf , and her best peep-toe shoes . |
| 19 | He looked so dignified , so calm , so thankful to be gone from this world and from his troublesome son . |
| 20 | Mrs Ross 's daughter had gone from Scotland . |
| 21 | It 's gone from dream factory creating durable , distinct genres to a more flexible operation trying to respond to small audience groups , to fashionable whims . |
| 22 | From that position he could satisfy himself that the pig-swill truck was gone from its usual spot in the rear driveway . |
| 23 | She was wearing her rouge and bright red lipstick again , and the childish plaits were gone from her hair . |
| 24 | A small clock had gone from the sitting room , and a watch in a slightly mildewed case . |
| 25 | What had gone from the attic she could only guess , for she did not remember half the things they stored there . |
| 26 | But a short fur jacket that had belonged to Faith , one which fitted Kathleen and which she had looked forward to wearing the following winter , that had gone from its polythene bag in Faith 's wardrobe . |
| 27 | Colin Falck 's Cat Gone from Memorabilia ( Taxus , £5.95 ) , by contrast , goes courageously over the top in its eloquent last verse demonstration of how death and depression transfer emotion and unhinge reason : Come back my love . |
| 28 | In the two years since the idea of a European bank was first mooted , the Soviet Union has gone from a net contributor to the bank 's budget to potentially its largest beneficiary . |
| 29 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 30 | Twenty-nine years after its founding , the Highlander Folk School was finally gone from Grundy County . ’ |