Example sentences of "[vb mod] go [adv] 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 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Then a man would go up on a ladder outside and put a hook on a chain around the ridge tree . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Why , Alida thought , in the middle of stripping bare the great bed , why I can go away on a holiday ! |
9 | And I can go away on a holiday at last . |