Example sentences of "went on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN who went on a violent rampage , breaking bottles and glasses in a pub and attacking a woman and a police officer , claimed his drinks had been spiked with drugs . |
| 2 | She left early for her morning swim at Buckingham Palace and later went on a 35-minute errand . |
| 3 | Again , the Morant Bay rising in Jamaica in 1865 was put down with savage majesty by Governor Eyre — 600 men , women and children indiscriminately massacred , many more hundreds executed , and a thousand homes burned to the ground — as Eyre 's troops went on a three-week orgy of hanging , torture , flogging and rape . |
| 4 | Charles Starkweather , the rebel without a cause who , in 1957 , went on a casual killing spree with his fourteen-year-old girlfriend in tow , ended up on screen as Kit Carruthers in Badlands . |
| 5 | He went on a long journey , was weary , worn-out with labour , and returning engraved on a stone the whole story . " |
| 6 | He went on a long journey , was weary worn out with labour , and returning engraved on a stone the whole story . " |
| 7 | In early 1944 I was asked by the Burma Government if I would consider deputising for B.R. Pearn while he went on a much-needed furlough . |
| 8 | The 100 manufacturers , eager to cash in on the huge Christmas sales of computer games , rubbed their hands with delight as people went on a recession-busting spending spree . |
| 9 | From there she went on a punishing schedule of visits to the US , Scandinavia and Japan before returning to Australia , which still remains very much her home . |
| 10 | On the 26th June 1989 I went on a primary school trip to the Isle of Wight . |
| 11 | ‘ But you never went on a sea-going ship , to faraway lands ? ’ |
| 12 | Nicknamed The Shopper by friends , she went on a recent shopping spree for antiques and furniture . |
| 13 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 14 | ‘ You never went on a gas-main explosion in Newark Eddy , ’ he said irritably . |
| 15 | First top Celomer management went on a two-weekend course . |
| 16 | ( The program became famous as a result , and went on a European tour ) . |
| 17 | On one occasion the two men went on a private cruise from Blackfriars , stopping for an hour or two at Greenwich before going on to Southend where , in its fun arcade , the real purpose of the visit was achieved : Minton , careering wildly in a dodgem , was at last able to bump a critic . |
| 18 | From August 18–28th I went on a fabulous vacation in Maine , a canoe trip on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway . |
| 19 | A writer who went on a police-escorted tour of Los Angeles 's red light districts to help him with an alleged magazine article is now wanted on suspicion of strangling three prostitutes in the city , police said yesterday . |
| 20 | So for example , if I went on er a job on Monday I could possibly draw gun number three but the following day if we went on a similar operation I might get gun number six . |
| 21 | The Polish Under-21 international collected the ball on the half-way line and went on a 50-yard run , jinking past Nigel Pearson and Viv Anderson before waltzing round keeper Chris Woods . |
| 22 | In June 1991 thousands of women went on a one-day strike in support of demands for equal pay and treatment in employment [ see p. 38299 ] . |
| 23 | Brown , who went on a one-day course at T IS before coming back and installing the system at Morgan Grenfell , is now teaching colleagues to use it , including unit manager Karen Goate , ‘ Computers used to frighten me , but not now , ’ she says . |
| 24 | He finally took the advice of doctors a month later , and he went on a two-week holiday to Jamaica . |
| 25 | The plant , which has a workforce of 356 , went on a four-day week in November following a downturn in demand for its joinery products caused by the recession . |
| 26 | Wealth went on a circular tour , and royal taxation was either wasted or enriched a class of profiteers , either the war captains or the purveyors who operated between the Exchequer and the army . |
| 27 | For the first year of Society operation the existing style of ticket was used , but as time went on a superior style was adopted , and these included a range of Member 's tickets as well as Complimentary and Supplementary ones . |
| 28 | The Clash II went on a busking tour to promote the ‘ Cut The Crap ’ LP . |
| 29 | A NINE-year-old boy who went on a six-month crime spree and carried out more than 50 thefts , went back to school yesterday after police were forced to let him walk free . |
| 30 | The same day , Nepal 's 1,800 lawyers went on a 24-hour strike in support of the campaign . |