Go out

1- Go out: Leave a place
2- Go out: Stop burning, be extinguished

1-  Salir
2-  Apagarse (luz, fuego, cigarrillos) 

• Intransitive

• Examples in context:

1.-  As she was going out for a walk, she decided to drop off the letter at the correct house.
1.-  Once the allocated time in front of the box has expired, the TV automatically switches off and the child must go out to play if he wants to earn more time.
1.-  There were also some good effects though, as people developed survival skills and went out for walks and visited friends rather than sitting in front of a computer.
1.- The proportion of women going out to work is probably the main force pushing this time-saving trend.
1.- Some people are good at being fugitives from the police. They stay at home, they go out in disguise or even create a new identity.
1.- Things reached an all-time low one night in 1989 when a female Wall Street executive went out jogging, only to be brutally raped and beaten by a gang of black teenagers.

2.-  I have a packet at home, but I don’t like them. They always go out.

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Go on

Go on: Happen

• Intransitive

• Examples in context:

• (...) including a man who unknowingly tried to have sex with his wife; she, by contrast, was wide awake and well aware of what was going on.

• Flats in which there are no dining tables are also flats in which not much in the way of cooking fresh ingredients goes on.

• But if you're constantly living in the future, ignoring what's going on right now because you're always trying to achieve difficult goals, you're not really living.

Pasar

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Go back

1- Go back : Have a long history

• Intransitive

        2- Go back : Return to, start doing something again

• Inseparable

• Examples in context:

1. Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of research that goes back to the very beginnings of computer science. 
2. Peter waited for an hour to go back  home, and there he told his wife about the ghost.

1- Remontarse
2- Volver

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