Example sentences of "went [adv] on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went down on a loose ball and my boot landed on him . |
| 2 | Four divisions , two of them Australian , went in on a limited front of about 4.5km/24mls , with 1,300 guns massed along the line between Klein Zillebeke and Westhoek . |
| 3 | Recently I went outside on a clear night , and started to count the stars I could see inside the Square ; using × 7 . |
| 4 | Me , myself , and I. ’ After losing in the Gotcha Pro early that summer on the South Side of Oahu , he went off on a self-destructive bender . |
| 5 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 6 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 7 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |
| 8 | ‘ Invitations went out on a geographical basis so each night we had a good cross section of staff like roadworkers , clerical assistants or estimators . |
| 9 | The third was Babar , though we always skipped the part where Babar 's mother is shot by the hunter , and the fourth was a sing-a-long story called The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night . |
| 10 | O , the Fox went out on a chilly night and he prayed to the moon to give him light … |
| 11 | In 1987 the UK Government went back on a pre-election promise to introduce Landscape Conservation Orders to protect these areas , so proper control from the EEC would be most welcome . |
| 12 | Up until recently , we had a resident who went across on a regular basis but her health deteriorated , and we have at least three or four who do wander about the shops . |