Example sentences of "go [adv prt] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We 're going out on a early February to do whatsername Rodney from Only Fools and Horses . |
| 5 | Never looks good going out on a falling tide . |
| 6 | As it goes r you 've heard something sort of er say an ashtray going round on a hard surface . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Pop concert goes out on a bad note |
| 10 | He continued : ‘ With criminal trespass , all they can do is go down on a daily basis and charge people . |
| 11 | He went down on a loose ball and my boot landed on him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |
| 18 | ‘ All boats go up on a rising tide , ’ observes Frank Delaney philosophically at the end of one of those come-on-Fred-we-give-you-all-this-advertising-how-about-an-in-depth-profile pieces , in this case on Harper-Collins , that PN does so well . |
| 19 | ‘ Invitations went out on a geographical basis so each night we had a good cross section of staff like roadworkers , clerical assistants or estimators . |
| 20 | The third was Babar , though we always skipped the part where Babar 's mother is shot by the hunter , and the fourth was a sing-a-long story called The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night . |
| 21 | O , the Fox went out on a chilly night and he prayed to the moon to give him light … |
| 22 | In 1987 the UK Government went back on a pre-election promise to introduce Landscape Conservation Orders to protect these areas , so proper control from the EEC would be most welcome . |
| 23 | When the offer first came up we 'd had an even lower-budget series go out on a national US cable network but , apart from that critically-lauded effort , no TV experience . |
| 24 | With almost half the present team threatening to retire at the end of the season — and who can blame them if it means that they go out on a high note — this was excellent news . |
| 25 | You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis . |
| 26 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |