Example sentences of "went [adv] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 2 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Adam paid the man and he went off on a bicycle , still wearing the knotted handkerchief on his head . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Georgiades , vexed , went off on a search of his own . |
| 7 | When he went off on a week 's holiday , I was asked to stand in experimentally for him . |
| 8 | While this was being done , Byrne and Phillips went off on a recce down to the road . |
| 9 | Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches . |
| 10 | Well that , that boat from Evesham that we went out on a couple a years ago it had a fish finder on it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had seen the pressure army wives were under , had seen their faces crumple when their men went out on a mission . |
| 13 | When you went out on a tour with MainMan , you did n't eat in a Wimpey level of place , or stay in the Holiday Inn . |
| 14 | He went out on a balcony to meet them . |
| 15 | I went out on a board George Downing had built for me . |
| 16 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 17 | It was about ninety pounds and he went out on a limb for it , too . |
| 18 | Oh , no doubt about it , in nineteen seventy two , seventy one seventy two we , we went out on a limb really with that , erm when all other Fire Brigades were using telephone systems , the Suffolk and Ipswich Fire Service went out and did that . |
| 19 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Good heavens , she thought , since she 'd spent most of her life studying , she seldom went out on a Saturday night anyhow ! |
| 22 | BY A strange coincidence , two Americans from the same Courtaulds site went abroad on a mission of mercy at the same time . |
| 23 | I went there on a memory trip but there 's nowhere |
| 24 | Boulogne is one of the French ports and if you went there on a day trip with your parents le ferry would take about 1 heure 40 minutes to cross the English Channel . |
| 25 | Er you were called out at night and of course in those days you went round on a bicycle and you , you went round with your little black bag strapped on the back . |