Example sentences of "went on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 2 | The roof went on first . |
| 3 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 4 | But adjustment went on all the same because it was the only way of making yourself tolerate a condition which you loathed . |
| 5 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 6 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 7 | I 've got nothing other , I do n't know whether anybody 's aware of what went on last Wednesday and probably that , I mean there could have been there was a , sort of a , a cable that , a mains cable that heated up and started smoking and er , we had to deal with that . |
| 8 | Woodhill Echo went on last year to win a £1,000 open at Brough Park before finishing third in the Scottish Derby . |