Example sentences of "go [adv prt] on [adj] " 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 | He also claimed that there was " no independent constitutional authority for Congress to go off on investigatory frolics of its own " . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her . |
| 8 | They played gallantly , leading right up to the final game , and going down on 836 . |
| 9 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 10 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 11 | He 's taken to going off on one or other of his ships — quite reasonably , because he is managing director of the shipping company . |
| 12 | Could I also give Mr a bit more thinking time by going off on another angle ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not going up on one of those things ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Registration forms for the Bookseller 's Association Conference 1993 will be going out on 1st February , and the BA is aiming to make Torquay , Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th April , one of its best and most cost effective events . |
| 17 | Well I ai n't going out on that Fox again . |
| 18 | Why are we going out on that one , not on that ? |
| 19 | It 's already going out on this month 's Crimewatch . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | We are not going back on that , ’ a source said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Had Innocent III wished — and the evidence is to the contrary — there would have been no going back on previous policy . |
| 25 | Dieters keep trying , going back on some diet or other , because they do not want to give up on themselves . |
| 26 | ‘ She comes out in the boat with me when I 'm going round on other jobs . ’ |
| 27 | Anyway when I approach a thirty mile an hour bend I usually go round at sixty thus going round on two wheels — halving the wear on the tyres . |
| 28 | ‘ I would be delighted , ’ he declares , ‘ to go out on that cloud . ’ . . |
| 29 | ‘ I invented having to go out on that instant . |
| 30 | The old lady was at home but she grumbled incessantly at being called upon to go out on such a chilly morning . |