Example sentences of "[noun pl] go on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents go on a three-day course to learn how to manage the child 's behaviour which may , for example , become highly sexualised or aggressive . |
| 2 | Again , the Morant Bay rising in Jamaica in 1865 was put down with savage majesty by Governor Eyre — 600 men , women and children indiscriminately massacred , many more hundreds executed , and a thousand homes burned to the ground — as Eyre 's troops went on a three-week orgy of hanging , torture , flogging and rape . |
| 3 | The same day , Nepal 's 1,800 lawyers went on a 24-hour strike in support of the campaign . |
| 4 | Dozens of youths went on a mugging rampage . |
| 5 | On one occasion the two men went on a private cruise from Blackfriars , stopping for an hour or two at Greenwich before going on to Southend where , in its fun arcade , the real purpose of the visit was achieved : Minton , careering wildly in a dodgem , was at last able to bump a critic . |
| 6 | In June 1991 thousands of women went on a one-day strike in support of demands for equal pay and treatment in employment [ see p. 38299 ] . |