Example sentences of "[vb past] to go on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 2 | Ca n't do the ship cos it wi , got to go on the bench in the garage . |
| 3 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 4 | But after a while she wanted a change from her routine and began to go on the weekly trips regularly . |
| 5 | Unable to stop worrying about the fate of his dependents in The Hague , he decided to go on a trip down the canal on a peat barge ; anything to distract himself . |
| 6 | A colleague , Sarah , recently graduated , decided to go on a very low calorie diet . |
| 7 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 8 | But then I started to think , well at this rate I am going to get pregnant , so I decided to go on the Pill , and that was the month I fell for Lucy . |
| 9 | Is he aware that anyone placed in that predicament today , and who decided to go on the dole so as to look after his sick parents , would not receive a single penny piece ? |
| 10 | After a fruitless hour I decided to go on the stick . |
| 11 | If 70,000 dared to go on the streets feeling they might be beaten up or worse , how many might demonstrate if that fear is removed ? |
| 12 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 13 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 14 | As a student on Imperial College 's petroleum geology MSc course , Mujadid had to go on a number of field trips during his year in the UK , but had not been able to buy suitable clothes for the British climate back home in Karachi . |
| 15 | That 's right they had to go on a rota . |
| 16 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 17 | She had to go on a bus actually . |
| 18 | Nicola had gone out about 9 a.m. saying she had to go on an executive management training course on How to Piss People About in advance of her new job . |
| 19 | We had to go on the Green Line bus . ’ |
| 20 | I moved on from that then I was fifteen then , and me Dad was he was a butty and er so er I had to go on the face then . |
| 21 | And of course I had to go on the carpet about that , for laughing . |
| 22 | And there was an occasion when we were at a chapel anniversary service and Mother had to go on the platform to sing . |
| 23 | Er taking off and sending telegrams , you see , erm then I was told that the Railway Company wer were taking girls on again , so I applied and I had to go to Ipswich to pass two more exams , you see , and er and started work and the in the Catering Manager 's office at Ipswich Station as , as a clerk doing typing and general office work as the Manager had to go on the district . |
| 24 | We had to take the photographs , he had to go on the pitch , did n't he ? |
| 25 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 26 | erm if you had to go on the road it would have been different . |
| 27 | He volunteered to go on the expedition to explore the island with Ralph and Jack , but they did not like him , so did not allow him to go . |
| 28 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 29 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 30 | ‘ He wanted to go on the dodgems and Nanny would n't let him . ’ |