Example sentences of "[vb past] gone on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 2 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 3 | There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them . |
| 4 | Years before , a Tory MP had gone on the dole and wound up in debt after seven days . |
| 5 | There were others ( such as Howard Teicher , who had gone on the trip to Tehran and had seen the spare parts in the back of the plane ) who were ‘ not in all the boxes within the boxes but some element of the box ’ . |
| 6 | The fuel gauge had gone on the blink shortly after the start , but pulling in for a pit-stop would cost him precious seconds . |
| 7 | Among the more interesting snippets which Norma chose to share with the electorate was the fact that her washing machine had gone on the blink , a button had fallen off her jacket — but , hey ! — she sewed it back on . |
| 8 | Since coming back to London on his £10 a week contract he had teamed up again with Stanley Baker and they had gone on the rampage . |
| 9 | Too weak to do either , she had gone on the streets . |
| 10 | Two hundred and fifty had gone on the video that was now tucked away securely in his car . |
| 11 | Banks now opened on Saturdays because the building societies had gone on the attack . |
| 12 | If Storie , and possibly captain Bruce Russell , who made 20 , had gone on the attack a couple of overs earlier , the Scots might have been celebrating their first victory on South African soil . |
| 13 | Johnny Martin , the ideal tourist , had gone on the Cavaliers ' tour of India and South Africa in 1962–63 . |
| 14 | When , in 1918 , with her brother and fiance both killed , she , an earl 's daughter , had gone on the stage in defiance of tradition , what else had she to offer ? |