Example sentences of "go on [art] " in BNC.

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1 I I I 'll go on no further than that .
2 Corporal Steve Giles has somehow talked his Platoon Commander into letting him go on a familiarisation helicopter flight around the Sector perimeter .
3 Your Uncle Walter 'll go on a long time yet , you see . ’
4 ‘ Well , you said we could go on a picnic today . ’
5 The first thing to do is go on a shopping trip .
6 Let me go on a bit .
7 So many girls at school say , ‘ Bloody hell , I must go on a diet ’ , but mostly they 're not serious about it .
8 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 .
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 Then we 'd go on a ten- to twenty-mile march and when we came back it would all be weighed again .
11 So you do n't go on a diet , exactly : you merely acquire a consciousness ( or a conscience ) about what you 're eating .
12 Ask if you can go on a course .
13 I was only sixteen ; they would n't let me go on a world tour .
14 You should go on a diet .
15 If little Jimmy 's mother tells everyone that they can never go on a long journey because little Jimmy is always car-sick , then you can be sure that little Jimmy always will be car-sick .
16 Besides , you could go on a really severe diet and wear blonde wigs and blame it on Birdland .
17 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 .
18 And should all efforts fail to entice the public , it 's Neneh who 'll need to ‘ go on a long holiday and bury my head in the sand ’ .
19 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 .
20 Usually , to please Father , I would also go on a quick visit to one of his shops and sometimes I wondered if they were doing as well as he pretended .
21 And , says Bobbie Jones , another defeated Tory , ‘ the cabinet should go on a public-relations course .
22 Fires are better prevented than put out and that 's the way the Profitboss views it , preferring to learn from the problem rather than go on a witch-hunt and blame someone for it .
23 The last thing you should do is go on a spending spree at the end of the year to justify this year 's budget and enhance next year 's .
24 so it could go on a separate tape if you wanted that to happen , it 's on a Mazda tape
25 This could go on a long while , Kate thought .
26 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 !
27 His missus would go on a vinegar trip if he was late home again .
28 In fact , so contemptible did I find his dismissal of my judgement as to what constitutes talent on the football field , that I flatly refused the £200,000 fee they were willing to pay for Colin Webley and let the useless git go on a free transfer !
29 God willing , he would soon go on a final long journey to another home , his real home , in Eretz .
30 This is cheap enough for a user to want to buy one rather than go on a commercial training course .
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