Example sentences of "go [adv prt] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He also claimed that there was " no independent constitutional authority for Congress to go off on investigatory frolics of its own " .
2 A single eruption may not only last for months , but it may also consist of a series of separate , different phases , and in many cases different things may be going on on different parts of the same volcano at the same time .
3 Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her .
4 He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained .
5 ‘ She comes out in the boat with me when I 'm going round on other jobs . ’
6 Anyway when I approach a thirty mile an hour bend I usually go round at sixty thus going round on two wheels — halving the wear on the tyres .
7 This mismatch led to our including clear , key-by-key sequences in the notes and a resolution not to go out on CDL trials before reaching the stage of adequate documentation , as time is too valuable .
8 We used to go out on these walks in the country near the school , and we were accused of going with two lorry drivers behind a bush to have sex with them in exchange for a watch .
9 Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle , either sailing around the windsurf bay till the winds become gusty , or sailing upwind for lunch at the long beach .
10 Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle .
11 He 's gon na go down on those nuts now .
12 ‘ It 's fairly flexible , I go in on odd days .
13 If astronauts go off on long journeys , in any direction in three-dimensional space , they 'll get to the boundary of our universe .
14 After morning parade , those not required for any tests or interviews would go off on working parties around the camp .
15 Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits .
16 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 .
17 Bombs went off on six beaches at once .
18 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 .
19 He and Eva went out on long walks together , or to the cinema at the ICA to see Scorsese films and exhibitions of dirty nappies .
20 He had made her laugh several times , had laughed once at something she 'd said , she recalled , and the entire evening had gone by on winged feet .
21 What does the , what does the youth bus actually do it , except go round on four wheels , I mean what 's it 's function ?
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