Example sentences of "[vb mod] go on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should go on a diet . |
| 2 | So many girls at school say , ‘ Bloody hell , I must go on a diet ’ , but mostly they 're not serious about it . |
| 3 | One goes on about it all the time , saying she must go on a diet , and start jogging and stuff , the other one does n't . |
| 4 | I went to my G P , having avoided her for fifteen years , having getting the old story every time you went well you must go on a diet ! |
| 5 | You hang around here and I 'll go on a head ! |
| 6 | You hang around here and I 'll go on a head ! |
| 7 | You hang around here and I 'll go on a head ! |
| 8 | I mean , she 'll go on a bus but no further , and we tried everything to get her to come to America — she would have loved to see me on Broadway , and she wanted to get there . |
| 9 | They were astonished to hear that in Britain it costs more than £3 to go to the cinema ( a Filipino obsession ) , when it costs only 3p in Dapitan , and to learn that teenage girls in Britain could go on a date with their boyfriends without a chaperone ; something disapproved of on Mindanao ) . |
| 10 | Elizabeth Titford must have thought that a London in which mobs could go on a looting spree in the City was no place to raise her young daughter . |
| 11 | I 'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right |
| 12 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 13 | I mean I could say well I could go on a diet , but , er and keep on this sort of thing like Margaret does you know |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you said we could go on a picnic today . ’ |
| 15 | Then we 'd go on a ten- to twenty-mile march and when we came back it would all be weighed again . |
| 16 | Yes you do and , and also , another thing , and it 's , in a way it was a bit annoying because we 'd go on these like crash diets , you know , we 'd get really nasty and s well not nasty and skinny we 'd just get really skinny before we went cos you know we would n't eat anything except like fruit for a we , we 'd eat , we 'd go on a diet and then we would n't eat fruit for , would n't eat anything but fruit for the week before and so we 'd , you know we 'd like have flat stomachs and you feel , if you have n't eaten you feel thinner even if you 're not , it 's all , it 's a bit , it 's psychological is n't it ? |
| 17 | Always used to go on a Sunday messing about |
| 18 | used to go on a Sunday say come on we 'll go and I used to my dinner , oh fucking hell my dinner this is desperate , them wee were gorgeous too . |
| 19 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 20 | We used to go on a tram-car and have a smoke , and a councillor was on there once , and noticed us having a smoke . |
| 21 | He used to go on a Wednesday my father did , yeah . |
| 22 | And we used to go visiting , my Auntie Irene lived there and And we used to go on a Saturday night , I used to ooh and I 've told her , I used to tell I would n't live that , live up that lane rent free . |
| 23 | Let's go on a bicycle , it 'll be quicker I think . |
| 24 | His missus would go on a vinegar trip if he was late home again . |
| 25 | I loved it so much I promised myself I would go on a course one day when I was old enough . |
| 26 | I would go on a course which is gon na give you the qualifications that are gon na pay you a good sa salary . |
| 27 | I do n't think you would go on a Sunday at . |
| 28 | I mean the a normal week would go on a garden and get free vegetables every day off our garden could n't we , normal time , normal , every time ? |
| 29 | The routine was established that if a customer wanted a carpet , their name would go on a list at the local carpet shop , and then wait their turn . |
| 30 | Ask if you can go on a course . |