Example sentences of "[verb] go on a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word .
2 At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in .
3 This applies even if one of you , unknown to the other , has gone on a mad spending spree .
4 Vividly picture going on a wonderful shopping spree , buying everything you have ever dreamt of , with great joy and exuberance .
5 We thought we had enough expertise with our our in-house training , without having to go on a separate one thousand five hundred pounds project management course .
6 But he ca n't resist going on a teensy-weensy shopping spree with Marlon , which involves going into a jewellers , pretending to be gay and , to divert inquiries , sneezing copiously over an assistant who is terrified they are transmitting Aids .
7 It 's got ta go on a steel pallet and yet next door in the export chiller they 're allowed to go on a wooden pallet and we work on wooden pallets erm
8 Quite apart from whatever Blenkinsop comes up with , I 'm going to get my chaps tomorrow to get going on a major investigation into the backgrounds of all these people .
9 I love going on a nice train journey !
10 ‘ After all , I 've come to see someone about volunteering to go on a special mission to America . ’
11 Well I think that it 's gone on a long time and it 's not
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