Example sentences of "went [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brearley won the toss and put West Indies in , and the England bowlers did well ; the fourth wicket went down on 99 and they were clearly on top . |
| 2 | The beautiful thing in that room was Maud Bailey herself , who went down on one knee very gracefully to plug in a kettle , and produced from a cupboard two blue and white Japanese mugs . |
| 3 | Luke went down on one knee . |
| 4 | Joe placed the bowl of water on the linoleum floor , took the discarded flannel from the bedside table and went down on one knee to apply treatment . |
| 5 | Karr went down on one knee . |
| 6 | ‘ Chieh Hsia … ’ the Marshal began , then went down on one knee , bowing his head low . |
| 7 | Holmes went down on one knee , and put his ear to the ground . |
| 8 | He went down on one knee beside the older woman . |
| 9 | Benjamin went down on one knee , tugging at my sleeve for me to follow suit . |
| 10 | I had said that I would find it easier on my own and she had been hurt , for normal mothers and daughters went together on this expedition , lunching in a department store and discussing the newly acquired contents of the carrier bags that lay at their feet . |
| 11 | The second phase of the attack went in on 26 September , a day when the weather was unusually fine , although the churned up , sodden ground remained impassable and treacherous . |
| 12 | The British bombardment on the Somme began on 24 June ( the infantry attack went in on 1 July ) and on that same day Falkenhayn stopped the massive flow of ammunition to Verdun and cancelled all reinforcements . |
| 13 | Well I used to do , what you 're doing see , you 're in charge of loading the ship , see but they did , first of all they , they , we had er , we had a foreman stevedore , then we had , and then erm we had the stevedores and the dockers they went away on these courses , down to ones , they used to go to Southampton and some went to Hull , but when they came back , they called theirselves stevedores , so course our harbourmaster , he say that 's not right , they 're stevedores , well you got ta be all called foremen stevedores , so Captain come to me , he said , what are we gon na call you ? |
| 14 | He got up and came at me with surprising speed , but suddenly the Hispaniola hit the sand and went over on one side . |
| 15 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 18 | The attack began when incendiary bombs went off on two floors of a museum in Shrewsbury Castle , Shropshire — causing £250,000 damage and destroying many irreplaceable relics of three famous regiments . |
| 19 | Bombs went off on six beaches at once . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 23 | Having reached the end it went up on one wing , round through 180 ° in the space of fifty metres , and plummetted out of the sky on to the tarmac . |
| 24 | Two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew I went out on one of my evil adventures . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A speechwriter 's attempt to compensate for the public relations lapse in not going to the Berlin Wall , Mr Bush 's prime time statement went out on all television channels on Thanksgiving Eve . |
| 27 | Another 69 Squadron Maryland went out on 15 April , Sqn.Ldr . |
| 28 | Gordon Brand , jun , and Ireland 's David Feherty , who were joint runners-up in Valencia last week , both failed to make the cut after taking 75 to finish on 148 , and the Turespana Masters champion , Andrew Oldcorn ( 74 ) went out on 150 . |
| 29 | Her boy went out on this work experience thing for his school like . |
| 30 | If a government went back on this assurance there would be no IAEA safeguards which could do anything about the position . |