Example sentences of "go on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's plenty going on i' Skipton . ’ |
| 2 | We were going on cross-country skis pulling pulks ( little sledges ) . |
| 3 | No it 's not going on loud Charlotte , I do not want to be deafened by Michael Jackson thank you , I think that 's quite loud enough |
| 4 | Balancing the books is going to be tricky … going on recent balance sheets around three million pounds will be needed up front to pay off debts and buy the Maxwell family shares … and then presumably more money will have to be invested to beat off losses of fifteen thousand pounds a week … the club 's managing director Pat McGeough is hoping to do a deal within the next few days … its not simple … its not clear cut … but for the first time win weeks United are confident about the future |
| 5 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 6 | I do n't understand what 's going on Prime Minister . |
| 7 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 8 | What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines . |
| 9 | I enjoyed Reading , a few beers , good atmosphere and some good bands , but … what the bloody hell was going on hygiene-wise ? |
| 10 | going on public transport and just |
| 11 | Cos also , I do n't mind , mind going on public transport as long as I know how to get there . |
| 12 | Police in Hemel Hempstead are asking shoppers and pubgoers to watch videos of missing four year old Simon Jones which are going on public view . |
| 13 | The Marquess of Lincolnshire , a former Liberal Minister ( as Earl Carrington ) and confidant of Asquith , wrote in his diary on 8 December with emphasis , ‘ The general opinion is that Baldwin has made such a mess of it that he must go at once ’ , and on 18 December , ‘ There is a Chamberlain-Birkenhead intrigue going on backed by the ‘ Daily Mail ’ . ’ |
| 14 | The row culminated in the headteacher , Jim Nind , asking to be transferred to another post and four of the seven teachers , apparently exhausted by the events , going on sick leave for a week . |
| 15 | One detective told TODAY : ‘ He was going on overseas trips , he dressed in designer suits . |
| 16 | So intense did the criticism become that Mr Stringer , who has been connected as player , coach and now manager with Norwich for almost 30 years , took the unprecedented step of going on national radio to defend himself and his players . |
| 17 | but Valerie 's she 's , she 's going on alright but er , she ca n't move those fingers |
| 18 | I have an overwhelming feeling that these dances which have been going on unchanged for hundreds , perhaps thousands of years , are truer to the ‘ âme collective ’ than our restless , critical , self-obsessed quadrilles . |
| 19 | For the best midfielder in the country I 'd be looking closer to 5–6 mil especially if he went to Rangers or abroad — but personally I would n't sell him , so going on past experience that means Wilko will get rid of him before the end of the season . |
| 20 | For instance , a major operation , starting a new school and going on active military service are threatening events often known in advance of occurrence , but which only a small minority of people will find sufficiently distressing to make psychiatric disorder a likely consequence . |
| 21 | This in turn means swotting up on the subject , going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers . |
| 22 | That 's why 67-year old George Bush has been seen humiliating himself on a tennis court and going on daily runs . |
| 23 | They wanted me to go on casual . |
| 24 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 25 | Predation by man on the bigger fish should , in theory , leave more small fish for the birds , but sadly , ‘ industrial ’ fishing for even the smallest and immature fish is a fact of life which has serious implications for the very existence of our sea-bird communities should it be allowed to go on unchecked . |
| 26 | And if Marilyn Monroe wanted to be movies today , she 'd have to go on serious diet first . |
| 27 | It is all very well for us to sit here and tell teachers to go on extra courses , but they 're finding that there are n't any left , so the next thing that they can turn to the next person they can turn to is the educational psychologist . |
| 28 | One of the detrimental effects that Professor Taylor has observed is that managers can no longer find the time to go on external training courses . |
| 29 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 30 | In selecting people for a job we are inclined to go on general appearance , whether we like the person , whether we would like to have him or her working for us . |