Example sentences of "[modal v] go [adv prt] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 2 | And then they used to go around on a Sunday morning from farm to farm to see how the other chaps are getting on and to say how much better their horses looked . |
| 3 | Aye , and er you see I used to go over , I used to go over on a Sunday , when they came , if you , on the er well you see as I told you this chap here . |
| 4 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 5 | Then a man would go up on a ladder outside and put a hook on a chain around the ridge tree . |
| 6 | I know she became somewhat lonely because her husband , although he was a very hard worker , would go off on a spree for some days at a time . |