Example sentences of "go [adv prt] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whoever woulda thought a lad could leave such a pretty little gal to go off on some faraway adventure , eh ? ’ |
| 2 | Her cheeks were pink with excitement , her eyes shiny and bright , as though she was getting ready to go off on some adventure . |
| 3 | ‘ It depends what kind of scenarios are going on on each floor and in each room of the tower block , ’ ponders The One Who Does n't Object To Wearing ( Hopefully Fake ) Fur Coats . |
| 4 | The range of the job varies from agency to agency , but basically it involves : progress chasing , making sure that jobs are taken through their various stages on time ; production , making sure that jobs go to and from studios and publications in the appropriate form , and the appropriate sizes and shapes ; and record-keeping , ensuring that a record is kept of what is going on on each account and every job done for that account . |
| 5 | Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her . |
| 6 | Could I also give Mr a bit more thinking time by going off on another angle ? |
| 7 | He looked ahead to where the road curved openly up to the left , free road ahead , that 's where he was going up on that open road ahead with this great sense of power behind his eyes , behind his shoulders , in his thighs . |
| 8 | And we went up there , oh dear , driving up there you 're going up on this little tiny when you 've got a big car . |
| 9 | Well I ai n't going out on that Fox again . |
| 10 | Why are we going out on that one , not on that ? |
| 11 | It 's already going out on this month 's Crimewatch . |
| 12 | We are not going back on that , ’ a source said . |
| 13 | In the meantime , Tarmac says work on the site will continue and they have no intention of going back on any of their committments to the development . |
| 14 | Dieters keep trying , going back on some diet or other , because they do not want to give up on themselves . |
| 15 | ‘ I would be delighted , ’ he declares , ‘ to go out on that cloud . ’ . . |
| 16 | ‘ I invented having to go out on that instant . |
| 17 | The old lady was at home but she grumbled incessantly at being called upon to go out on such a chilly morning . |
| 18 | We used to go out on these walks in the country near the school , and we were accused of going with two lorry drivers behind a bush to have sex with them in exchange for a watch . |
| 19 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 20 | 38 , 51 , afford a sufficient basis for saying that a party would not be allowed in equity to go back on such a promise . |
| 21 | Because you 're not going to have to go back on many of the things . |
| 22 | Which answer will help us most to ensure that life can go on on this planet ? |
| 23 | And finally can I reemphasise that we have not come to any conclusion as to which road we shall go down on this one . |
| 24 | He 's gon na go down on those nuts now . |
| 25 | You can actually get stronger as you go along on all the benefits so instead of selling one benefit , you could sell them a multitude of benefits because it means that if you 're with a customer two hours or two and a half hours , instead of spending ninety percent of the time , chatting along , you , you 'll not argue about , you follow me , I 've stopped selling benefits , but I used to sell them brillian brilliantly , in other words you get , gives you a bit of meat |
| 26 | I might as well go through on this , I was gon na go in that one . |
| 27 | And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project . |
| 28 | ‘ A rumour will be spread Tweed has gone off on another insurance investigation . |
| 29 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 30 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |