Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abraham finally went to sleep on the waggon . |
| 2 | An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus . |
| 3 | In Russia , Yeltsin also came to power on a wave of anti-communist feeling augmented by Russian nationalism . |
| 4 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 5 | When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons . |