Example sentences of "[noun sg] go on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But parliament is far away , and the border of Wales is very near , and is there a soul in these parts who does not know that smuggling goes on day by day , and that life here would be impossible if it did not ? |
| 2 | It will automatically calculate , for example , what proportion of your income goes on things like the car and household items . |
| 3 | Much of my paltry income goes on rent boys — one of my few weekend leisure activities . |
| 4 | Esquire Goes on a Date |
| 5 | Its growth was to cause a storm of protest in the next century from archbishops less inclined to travel than Sigeric ; but we need not doubt that it arose because Sigeric and his like were delighted to have an excuse to go on pilgrimage , and the diary he has left of his movements dwells especially on the many churches in Rome worth a pilgrim 's attention . |
| 6 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're after an excuse to go on the prowl round those fashion-shops again — is n't that the truth of it ? ’ |
| 8 | What direction to go on , on their closes ? |
| 9 | We recognize this by our willingness to go on courses , keep up with professional reading , and sometimes update our qualifications ; education authorities recognize this when they encourage us to do so by paying expenses , granting leave of absence , and sometimes secondment on full pay . |
| 10 | My mum goes on a Sunday ? |
| 11 | At an age when I was having qualms over the philosophy of M. Bergson , he was speaking in a factory yard of the necessity to go on strike . |
| 12 | Sedimentation goes on all the time , for ever moving from place to place , for ever cannibalising itself . |
| 13 | A number of courses give students an opportunity to go on a short relevant placement in an organization outside the University , where they gain experience of the world of work and in applying the skills they have learnt . |
| 14 | Members have the opportunity to go on weekend projects , conservation working holidays and training courses run by BTCV all over the country . |
| 15 | The ship will soon be visiting Hartlepool giving Hurworth residents the opportunity to go on board and meet crew members . |
| 16 | The others had paid a lot of money to go on this guided trip . |
| 17 | I 'll give you the money to go on that . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that many citizens ‘ banned and cursed her ’ , nor is it wholly surprising that there were some among them prepared to give her money to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella in Spain . |
| 19 | She is staying at home this summer because she says she does n't make enough money to go on holiday . |
| 20 | One of the events which shook her most of all was the occasion upon which her mother gave her permission to go on the school trip to Paris . |
| 21 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 22 | Democracy , explained Mr McIverney , was all about the decisions of Parliament , and Parliament had granted his engineers permission to go on site . |
| 23 | With respect to the reason for Molla Fenari 's going on the pilgrimage , he writes that an invasion of Edirne and its environs by the combined forces of Seyh Bedreddin and Duzme Mustafa led Molla Fenari to seek permission to go on the pilgrimage , though it is not clear whether Husameddin means that simply the fact of the invasion or that Molla Fenari 's supposed complicity with Seyh Bedreddin led him to decide to " remove himself from the scene : in any case both the circumstances and the chronology of events in the period are too uncertain to allow one to evaluate the argument properly . |
| 24 | Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell . |
| 25 | Only 15% of America 's defence budget goes on research and development . |
| 26 | Sixteen per cent of the budget goes on the care of the mentally ill and mentally handicapped . |
| 27 | Almost 40 per cent of the country 's budget goes on the 57,000-strong civil service . |
| 28 | Children ‘ die as money goes on debt and arms ’ . |
| 29 | The inaccessibility of the drought region means that one third of the money goes on transport . |
| 30 | Puff pastry goes on top and then into a very hot oven . |