Example sentences of "went [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ Riddle went there on some Wednesdays and almost every Friday . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The investiture went ahead on 1 July and was a splendid and dramatic piece of pageantry ; it was also strangely moving . |
| 6 | Notts County against Pisa , two one at half time , we 'll be bringing you er commentary in the second half , sharing the commentary with the match at between Shrewsbury Town and Blackburn Rovers , it 's a third round replay in the Coca Cola Cup , Blackburn went ahead on six minutes through Mike , equalizing on twenty and a short while ago Shrewsbury taking the lead , a penalty put away with some aplomb by , they lead two one . |
| 7 | Manoeuvres to block him failed to stop the Assembly endorsing his claim to form a government , and he went ahead on 23 June 1960 . |
| 8 | Oldham the leaders went ahead on twenty one minutes through veteran Roger Palmer , but Tony Ford pulled a goal back for West Bromwich Albion with half time approaching . |
| 9 | and you went anywhere on that route , yeah ? |