Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three branches went out on strike in South Tyneside , Walsall , and Hackney . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 7 | The lights went out on him . |
| 8 | While transit passengers went off on local tours , Ellerman & Bucknall were busy co-ordinating the delivery of 80 tons of supplies and 2,500 tons of fuel to be taken on board . |
| 9 | Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches . |
| 10 | In these older towns , too , the large houses of the middle class were divided into tenements to house the swarming population , and factories and warehouses went up on their gardens and orchards . |
| 11 | In spite of attempts to stop their transmission , the programmes went out on CCTV , watched by millions and caused a great deal of lively , heated debate . |
| 12 | Bombs went off on six beaches at once . |
| 13 | The attack began when incendiary bombs went off on two floors of a museum in Shrewsbury Castle , Shropshire — causing £250,000 damage and destroying many irreplaceable relics of three famous regiments . |
| 14 | ‘ Invitations went out on a geographical basis so each night we had a good cross section of staff like roadworkers , clerical assistants or estimators . |
| 15 | Prices went up on April 2 by an average 60 per cent . |
| 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 | But as posters went up on campuses in the populous city of Shanghai , the situation became more critical and was fraught with behind-the-scenes manoeuvring . |