Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 6 | Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches . |
| 7 | He had seen the pressure army wives were under , had seen their faces crumple when their men went out on a mission . |
| 8 | 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 . |