Example sentences of "go [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your equipment has to go outside on open roads or gravelled surfaces , remember castors are not always suitable . |
| 2 | Mrs Preston added : ‘ In my opinion he looked too upset to work in an operating theatre so I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . ’ |
| 3 | He also claimed that there was " no independent constitutional authority for Congress to go off on investigatory frolics of its own " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 6 | And if they say well , we want erm seventy five different locations served with crisps stands by ten o'clock tomorrow because our advert is going out on national T V tomorrow can we do it ? |
| 7 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
| 8 | Had Innocent III wished — and the evidence is to the contrary — there would have been no going back on previous policy . |
| 9 | Going overboard on nutritional supplements would n't necessarily help . |
| 10 | ‘ She comes out in the boat with me when I 'm going round on other jobs . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a psychological boost to go back on top but we have been there before and we wo n't be getting too carried away . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's fairly flexible , I go in on odd days . |
| 13 | That 's if we 'd gone in on fixed price on scaled fee |
| 14 | A NEW row erupted around the Government last night after it signalled it would go slow on new laws to outlaw ticket touts . |
| 15 | If astronauts go off on long journeys , in any direction in three-dimensional space , they 'll get to the boundary of our universe . |
| 16 | Hemingway seems to have ‘ gone off on top doh ’ and fired all his big guns before the battle has even begun . |
| 17 | After morning parade , those not required for any tests or interviews would go off on working parties around the camp . |
| 18 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 19 | Every day the Prince and Princess went off on official business , to look at churches , visit hospitals and meet people , and the minute they were back on board the royal yacht , Charles would quickly change into some comfortable clothes and sit on deck with his sketchbook and teacher , until the very last minute before the bell for dinner . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Rainey went back on top Down Under . |
| 23 | I was going to take you out — you never go out on New Year 's Eve . ’ |
| 24 | They are carried out by United Kingdom-based staff , who go overseas on short-term assignments which aim to generate effective techniques of mineral , energy and groundwater resource exploration and development that are applicable to and will find general use in Third World countries . |
| 25 | United States judges also have gone abroad on rare occasions , e.g. , to England in the Westinghouse case , but it is understood that the United States now discourages this practice . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only a modest proportion of government expenditure went on civil matters , while between 75 and 85 per cent of annual expenditure went either on current spending on the Army , Navy and ordnance , or else to the service of war debts . |