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 | Going overboard on nutritional supplements would n't necessarily help . |
| 4 | A NEW row erupted around the Government last night after it signalled it would go slow on new laws to outlaw ticket touts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |