Example sentences of "go [adv prt] on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much actual , constructive or imputed knowledge does an exchange have of what goes on on its own trading floor ? |
| 2 | Rufus would n't have wanted to go and he would have had to go down on his own by train . |
| 3 | ‘ So if you want to go off on your own for a bit , and you 'll trust me , ’ said Emma , ‘ I can look after Ruth . ’ |
| 4 | He used to go off on his own and come back in a sort of daze , as if he could n't understand anything we said to him . |
| 5 | The video guide to Oxford shows a little girl going off on her own around the city 's sights . |
| 6 | ‘ They were not just going off on their own into the bush they were in tourist locations . |
| 7 | It had begun the day before , the suggestion of going off on their own , hiring a car . |
| 8 | And then , suddenly , she sees Dieter going off on his own , and decides to have it out with him . |
| 9 | A strange man indeed , disdaining now to join the wedding party escorting her and her bridegroom to their carriage but going off on his own down one of the narrow churchyard pathways , towards the dressmaker Miss Adeane . |
| 10 | He had been unable to prevent Pickerage going off on his own on Sunday . |
| 11 | Cos he said to me how , you going up on your own ? |
| 12 | She lives in a top floor flat in Oxford and has had several accidents on the stairs leaving her very unsure about going out on her own . |
| 13 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 14 | Poor lady , she 'll be turning in her grave to think of you going out on your own like this — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I assisted some great fashion photographers before going out on my own ; Clive Arrowsmith , Roger Charity , and several others , including Parks , freelance . |
| 16 | This is an alternative to war which states could in theory accept without giving up their own moral values , going back on their own factual claims , losing their dignity in the community of nations , or giving up their political endeavours to persuade others to their point of view . |
| 17 | The Russians stuck firmly to the Moscow terminology of December 1945 , including the reference to trusteeship , the reason being that they wished to prevent the Americans from going back on their past support for trusteeship . |
| 18 | At the end , he wanted to be on his own , so he 'd encourage her to go out on her own and go loony with me . |
| 19 | She liked to go for walks and when things were going badly between herself and Simon she used to go out on her own a lot . |
| 20 | ‘ It was not unusual for her to go out on her own and meet up with friends , ’ he said . |
| 21 | She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests . |
| 22 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 23 | The first is a request for the pleasure of their company while the second implies slight patronage , and highlights their inability to go out on their own and their need now to be ‘ taken ’ . |
| 24 | The enterprising Campbell Freight Agencies ' company was formed in May 1979 when Alan decided to go out on his own after working for a multi-National freight firm . |
| 25 | Before that scene came along , it was quite hard to go out on your own and meet new people , and for a while that was possible . |
| 26 | Whatever the reason , you would be ill-advised to go out on your own . |
| 27 | Anyway , I decided to go out on my own . |
| 28 | As he pointed out , it was n't safe for me to go back on my own . |
| 29 | Blum therefore felt obliged to go back on his original commitment to aid Spanish democracy , and instead proposed that the main European powers agree on a policy of ‘ non-intervention ’ in Spain . |
| 30 | Nigel went along on his own with a nice little pair of mother-of-pearl binoculars that had been in the family for generations . |