Example sentences of "went [adv prt] on [num] " 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He got up and came at me with surprising speed , but suddenly the Hispaniola hit the sand and went over on one side . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Bombs went off on six beaches at once . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew I went out on one of my evil adventures . |
| 18 | Another 69 Squadron Maryland went out on 15 April , Sqn.Ldr . |
| 19 | 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 . |