Example sentences of "went [adv prt] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He went down on a loose ball and my boot landed on him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Invitations went out on a geographical basis so each night we had a good cross section of staff like roadworkers , clerical assistants or estimators . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | O , the Fox went out on a chilly night and he prayed to the moon to give him light … |
| 13 | Editor , — Recently , as a trainee general practitioner , I went out on an urgent call at lunchtime on a weekday . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 16 | Oxford Regional Health Authority explained why it went back on the original decision saying , ’ We understood that the law said quite clearly the health authority could not provide treatment in private homes . |
| 17 | Who were the two characters who ‘ went by on the other side ’ in the Parable of the Good Samaritan ? |