Example sentences of "to go on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virgil 's Aeneas leaves a burning Troy to go on his adventures , effect his betrayal , and arrive at the Tiber , where an empire is to rise . |
| 2 | My sense of how to go on determined by the vividness of my imagination of what it will be like when done . |
| 3 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 4 | If you have a large bill which you can not pay you may be able to go on the fuel direct scheme and deductions will be made from your benefit each week to pay for your current fuel consumption and any arrears . |
| 5 | If you decide to go on the scheme you must enquire at your local Social Security Office to see if you are eligible . |
| 6 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 7 | The best way of escaping from the top-ropers is to go on one of the long classics . |
| 8 | Judges are receiving firearms training from police but have threatened to go on strike as promised protection has not materialised . |
| 9 | Six-year-old Robert , clutching a small brown teddy bear , will remember how he missed school to go on a sudden ‘ holiday ’ . |
| 10 | If workers hold a democratic vote to go on strike for whatever reason , it ill becomes a Labour government to legislate to make it unlawful . |
| 11 | DUTCH eggs known to be infected with salmonella were allowed to go on sale in Britain without a public health warning being issued , it was confirmed yesterday . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | The first Mk2 911 to go on sale in Britain was the Carrera 4 — the four-wheel drive version . |
| 14 | No one is willing to go on record with their feelings about Hamnett 's sometimes capricious behaviour , but one says privately : ‘ Like many creative people , she can be impossible to reason with , and the experience can be very painful . ’ |
| 15 | Several major galleries now claim that they have ceased trading with Saatchi - ‘ I would n't sell him a napkin , ’ said one prominent figure in the New York art world — but since no one is prepared to go on the record with such an assertion , or to have their name directly linked to a quote , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that dealers and artists are hedging their bets . |
| 16 | This enables efficient connections , although airpass passengers are obliged to go on standby for each leg . |
| 17 | He also managed to go on some exciting trips such as following part of the old Inca trail in Ecuador on horseback . |
| 18 | They took a vow like those of the Middle Ages where someone swore to go on crusade if his wife 's life was saved . |
| 19 | The chances are it will blow up into a huge row , or even a fight , just as you are about to go on stage at the Marquee . |
| 20 | We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip . |
| 21 | The others had paid a lot of money to go on this guided trip . |
| 22 | Like most at the top of the business , Reitzle was n't going to go on the record either openly praising or criticising Giugiaro . |
| 23 | Forty Guardsmen in the battalion attend the promotion course ; 4 Company was selecting their best men to go on the course later in the year . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm meeting him , to go on a trip round the city . |
| 25 | In 1981 Vitalis Okoth from St Paul 's Parish , Mbaga , was invited to go on the course . |
| 26 | ‘ Compulsive spenders suffer the same urge to go on a binge as compulsive drinkers , eaters or non-eaters , ’ declares Dr Christopher Cook of London 's Middlesex Hospital Psychiatry Unit . |
| 27 | Not one of the 33 No-voters , let alone the 24 abstainers , was prepared to go on television on Tuesday night to stand by Sir Anthony . |
| 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 | ‘ Carl 's decision not to go on the ranking devalues the No.1 position of Alan Cooke , ’ Douglas said . |