Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But
2 They inevitably knock on the door on the one evening of the month when you 're dolled up in your glad rags to go out on the town .
3 So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end .
4 It was the highest total and the biggest increase since March 1991 , when shoppers went out on a spending spree to beat the rise in value-added tax rates .
5 But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted .
6 One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch .
7 It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months .
8 I see bands going out on the road with a dozen more people than they actually need .
9 Police inquiry desks in Darlington will be staffed by civilians rather than policemen , leaving more officers to go out on the beat , if the Chief Constable of County Durham gets his way .
10 She stared at the car lights going by on the ceiling and thought about her Diary and wondered how much they would pay her for it .
11 I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe .
12 This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight .
13 It led to a hallway , with stairs going up on the left .
14 Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches .
15 ( i.e. would miss seeing children go by on the way to and from school ) .
16 He had seen the pressure army wives were under , had seen their faces crumple when their men went out on a mission .
17 When this happened the huge anti-American feeling which arose soon squashed signing-up for courses and the University students went out on a protest strike , so classes were not attended .
18 It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash .
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