Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] go on a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine .
2 When did you ever know me to go on a diet ?
3 Let me go on a bit .
4 She says we went on a bus tour and learnt about the architecture and colleges .
5 When the water evaporates it goes on a cloud and then the cloud goes in any place and later it goes out as rain .
6 I remember we went on a visit once to the newly opened Polish Post Office .
7 Corporal Steve Giles has somehow talked his Platoon Commander into letting him go on a familiarisation helicopter flight around the Sector perimeter .
8 He had been too rushed and busy in Rome to enjoy his stay there , although it seems that the American writer , Frederic Prokosch , persuaded him to go on a pilgrimage one afternoon to find the legendary " Golden Bough " on the shores of Lake Nemi ; what they found was an old and dilapidated oak .
9 Maybe give you a wee lesson so it 'll save me going on a course so you could bring in all could n't you ?
10 I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour .
11 Why did you go on a choir outing ?
12 I think he went on a liner .
13 ‘ But they asked us to go on a picnic wiv 'em . ’
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