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

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1 But now women are meant to go along on an even keel and when something upsets them they think tha e , I should n't be able to express this any more , so I 'll go to the G P and he 'll give me something and then the emotions will go away , but unfortunately they do n't go away , they just go wandering , they 'll come back again at another point .
2 The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens .
3 As he was all poshed up in his best uniform , ready to go off on a 48-hour pass , he was not best pleased at this turn of events .
4 But i it depends Terry with everybody 's going down on the urgent work ones which is putting the normal service
5 ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction .
6 She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting .
7 That well Lil and Nev going up on the mini break
8 We 're going out on a early February to do whatsername Rodney from Only Fools and Horses .
9 Never looks good going out on a falling tide .
10 As it goes r you 've heard something sort of er say an ashtray going round on a hard surface .
11 The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit .
12 Both he and Mickey Skinner have a limited number of appearances at Twickenham to look forward to and they will surely be anxious to go out on a high note .
13 This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire .
14 A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age .
15 Pop concert goes out on a bad note
16 Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side .
17 It would not be proper or right for me to discuss what went on on the specific issues in the Cabinet and I do n't wish to do so .
18 He continued : ‘ With criminal trespass , all they can do is go down on a daily basis and charge people .
19 ‘ We did n't go in on the free travel promotion because many of the deals involved British Rail and we do n't have it here , ’ she said .
20 He went down on a loose ball and my boot landed on him .
21 Four divisions , two of them Australian , went in on a limited front of about 4.5km/24mls , with 1,300 guns massed along the line between Klein Zillebeke and Westhoek .
22 Carey went over on the right ankle during a friendly game with Armagh a fortnight ago , and is still gingerly finding his way back to full fitness .
23 Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer .
24 ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school .
25 I could hardly let you go off on an epic journey all by yourself .
26 Me , myself , and I. ’ After losing in the Gotcha Pro early that summer on the South Side of Oahu , he went off on a self-destructive bender .
27 He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns .
28 His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside .
29 She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen .
30 As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre .
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