Example sentences of "[noun sg] go on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Esquire Goes on a Date |
| 2 | ‘ You 're after an excuse to go on the prowl round those fashion-shops again — is n't that the truth of it ? ’ |
| 3 | My mum goes on a Sunday ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sixteen per cent of the budget goes on the care of the mentally ill and mentally handicapped . |
| 11 | Almost 40 per cent of the country 's budget goes on the 57,000-strong civil service . |
| 12 | Hospitals close , trains stop , radar goes on the blink , satellites spin wordlessly in space , and for everyone dialling long distance or local calls , the pips announce that time is finally up . |
| 13 | According to Lord Wilson , the most recent premier to go on the record about the conventions of minute-taking , ‘ the writing of the Conclusions is the unique responsibility of the Secretary of the Cabinet … . |
| 14 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 15 | He once won a scholarship to go on a German banking state tour . |
| 16 | The painting of July 1890 , executed just days before van Gogh killed himself , and France 's first historic monument to go on the block , was sold on 6 December by Jean-Claude Binoche to French banker and businessman Jean-Marc Vernes . |
| 17 | Sometimes the intention to go on the Pill is there , but it is put off until next week , or until their sixteenth birthday . |
| 18 | Many fear the longer the fighting goes on the less the chance of a tolerant democratic system emerging . |
| 19 | Killer goes on the run with violent robber |
| 20 | Now I can not concede that programme going on the air when I was to Melbourne . |
| 21 | On 12 November the programme went on the air . |
| 22 | this advert went on the back of it . |
| 23 | THIS was Black Wednesday madness yesterday as City ‘ bookies ’ gambling on Britain 's future went on an orgy of selling in an atmosphere of raw aggression . |
| 24 | I wished that I could talk well , and could continue this conversation until animosity was dissipated and we could all stand on some common ground , but I knew enough to admit that this would n't happen , and that the longer the talk went on the further apart we should all grow . |
| 25 | I knew that only two riders together would n't be able to stay clear to the finish , but when the break went on the circuit there was only me and my teammate Brian Smith chasing . ’ |
| 26 | While the slow process of discharging cargo goes on the four apprentices , firm friends in spite of temperamental differences , are fired by legends of hidden treasure to explore the hills behind the town in their free time . |
| 27 | A number of newspapers claimed the Princess was forced by the Queen to go on the tour against her will , as a way of demonstrating there was no rift between her and the Prince . |
| 28 | That girl goes on the manor and Jack |
| 29 | got back to his mark and we 're going to have three slips , Lewis gone to join the slips , so it 's er three slips and the gully , as waits for this one , packing were the up comes Lawrence now past Dickie Bird , bowls to him , well pitched up and he played a rather streaky stroke really , and he turns it away down to square Tufnell is down there , fields the ball , throws back quite nicely , he fielded very well , let's say that and one run goes on the total , er so that at the moment three hundred and four runs are needed and it 's about three point nine seven the required rate . |
| 30 | When you 've registered that clobber , the bundle goes on the Biology shelf . " |