Example sentences of "they [verb] on holiday " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was a lot of little hands were shooting up when they were being asked where were they going on holiday ? |
| 2 | There are practical limits on flexibility , but clients can easily suspend the service if they go on holiday , or for respite care . |
| 3 | But they go on holiday on Thursday . |
| 4 | You know the A types , they go on holiday , Monday , went and looked at so- and-so , Tuesday we did so-and-so , Wednesday we did , Thursday was really boring . |
| 5 | Medved accuses Steven Spielberg of using his Peter Pan story , Hook , to advance his theme of kids being good and adults bad ; while the storyline of Home Alone , about parents who accidentally leave their eight-year-old son behind when they go on holiday , promotes a picture of adult ineptitude and childhood self-sufficiency . |
| 6 | And then they go on holiday with Ann and the old man . |
| 7 | And when they go on holiday with Ann and the old man they used to get through a hundred pounds a day and they go for a week . |
| 8 | But they go on holiday on Thursday . |
| 9 | And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun . |
| 10 | They went on holiday to a farmhouse at Ponsworthy in Devon and thither came a vast parcel , from the Clerical and General Tailors ( Breeches Makers etc. ) , of Sackville Street , Piccadilly , bill £376 ; chimeres , wristbands , rochets , frills , breeches , gaiters , purple dress coat , black barathea breeches , patent court shoes , silver-plated shoe buckles , and other less rare articles of apparel . |
| 11 | As they begin to remember their younger life and what their job was or the day they went on holiday to Margate , the more they may begin to make links with things happening today . |
| 12 | We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements . |
| 13 | Davies said he ditched his girlfriend for Fiona and they went on holiday together to Tenerife where Paul took pictures of her topless . |
| 14 | It wa it was the night before they went on holiday . |