Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] went on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ooh they sometimes used to get books or er they used to get some nice prizes you know , and books and er and that and er and when I was little I once went on stage for a in a skipping competition . |
| 2 | ‘ I then went on holiday by myself . ’ |
| 3 | ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together . |
| 4 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 5 | She dismantled them and used the beads to weight the edges of crocheted food covers , which then went on sale at a craft workshop at Symonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire border . |
| 6 | Less dramatic but equally puzzling would be the problem posed by the patient who deliberately went on hunger-strike in order to end his suffering . |
| 7 | Like most of the other women in the refuge , she never went on holiday after she was married , never went to the pictures and rarely went out . |
| 8 | They even went on holiday together . |
| 9 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |