Example sentences of "[verb] to go on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
| 2 | I do n't really want to go on a Saturday . |
| 3 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Every Strathclyde pupil is expected to go on a school trip involving an overnight stay at some point during their schooling , though their parents would have to give their consent to this . |
| 6 | And I said I ca n't wait to go on a diet , ! |
| 7 | ‘ But there is no way I 'm going to go on a tour just now simply to grovel to those people who still do n't think I can sing . ’ |
| 8 | I was once going to go on a trip , my mate and I we go a trip to er a train cruise down from er down through Italy and of course |
| 9 | Thus you can define fill as ‘ chainmail ’ for instance , and know exactly where on your drawing of medieval knights to apply the fill ( it is n't going to go on a flag , is it ? ? ) |
| 10 | ‘ Once upon a time I thought I 'd like to go on a trek through a jungle or rain forest . |
| 11 | Erm , we called a lodge meeting before the annual leave , annual shutdown , and in that lodge meeting all three quarries agreed to go on a work to rule as from the resumption of work , which is second week of August . |
| 12 | Well it means I 've got to go on a Thursday so if you run out of money on a Tuesday with run out . |
| 13 | ALTHOUGH Prince Andrew is seemingly lovelorn , we can reveal that he intends to go on a shopping trip next week for high-class ladies ' underwear . |
| 14 | You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’ |
| 15 | I 've gone to the local Council and er unfortunately they 've said to me that I 'd have to go on a waiting list ; the housing aid have said the only thing they could offer me is bed and breakfast which I 'm sorry to say I do n't think is suitable to bring two children up in . |
| 16 | And I said to her well I 'll have to go on a eating binge . |
| 17 | When I was ill and was told I would have to go on a diet for the rest of my life I felt totally deprived that I was n't going to be able to eat junk food any more . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If you are particularly interested in any activity or craft , ask to go on a course to learn more about it . |
| 20 | Being asked to go on a committee may be something we tend to shy away from at first . |
| 21 | But , when I was asked to go on a demonstration years ago , I did n't because I just do n't see gender as a problem . |
| 22 | If you 're intending to go on a diet , it 's advisable to consult your doctor first and seek his or her advice . |
| 23 | Young people with backpacks and habitual travellers may know what it means to go on a journey , but for most the romance of escape begins with deciding where to go on holiday and then getting there as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | That 's right they had to go on a rota . |
| 25 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | She had to go on a bus actually . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 30 | THE Germans were yesterday urged to go on a spending blitz in Britain after the crashing pound turned our goods into bargains . |