The look went out of her face, and the next thing I knew, she was gone.

So the one thing he would have kept was gone as well.

But when I got outside again the thing was gone.

I went by there, and all his things were gone.

The few things which were left in it are all gone.

She could still feel it, but the thing itself was gone.

Then I see that thing on my head and it's gone.

The thing that had called to it across a million years was gone.

You see it so clear that all the things which happened in between are gone.

But the thing that had been sitting at the table was gone.