Example sentences of "[was/were] go on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Kinsella were to go on a binge , he would drink his way down to the last penny of whatever money is available , irrespective of who it belongs to . ’ |
| 2 | She was taken by surprise by the friendly smile he turned on her , and for a moment she dreamed they were going on a holiday together that had nothing to do with Dana and Garry and everything to do with each other . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , I thought you said we were going on a boat trip . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd thought we were going on a lecture tour , I 'd have brought a notepad and a lunchbox . |
| 5 | We did n't call ti hiking we were going on a walk . |
| 6 | And it was er , it was quite amazing when we were going on the motorway we saw these cars with erm er er there was like Pakistani erm and Turkish flags flying and when we got , er when we was going at the night time to Blackpool it was crammed ! |
| 7 | Up to virtually the last minute I 'd assumed that we , or at least yours truly , were going on the plane as well . |
| 8 | But then that would mean that you 'd have to have assessed people in whatever it was they were going on the training course before |
| 9 | When Pietro told us that you were going on the pay-off I felt that you should know what you were getting yourself into . ’ |
| 10 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 11 | He was barely eighteen , he was to go on a tour of the fabled cities of England ; he was to be thrown in with chorus girls , drink with vagabonds of the stage , have the money for floozies and low bars , time to read and time to talk and be praised for doing this stage work which was not work at all . |
| 12 | What she really wanted was to go on the pill , but as her doctor was a close family friend , she could n't face asking him . |
| 13 | ‘ I was going on a bit . ’ |
| 14 | I knew she was going on a cruise . |
| 15 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 16 | Then , on Sunday evening , the pilot 's employers telephoned to say their pilot had fully recovered and was going on a course the next day in London . |
| 17 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 18 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 19 | She was going on a picnic . ’ |
| 20 | While all this was going on a number of Americans , including the head of CIA operations in Beirut , William Buckley , were kidnapped by Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organisations which had tenuous links with Iran . |
| 21 | But I was on the race , I was going on the race track . |
| 22 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 23 | I was going on the school trip to the Norfolk Broads and needed some spending money . ) |
| 24 | I sought a subject , as I had done in the past , by looking at my TV screen to see what was going on the world . |
| 25 | The worst part of the job was going on the beat in winter . |
| 26 | Well she was going on the train . |