Example sentences of "to go on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted me to go on casual . |
| 2 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 3 | Predation by man on the bigger fish should , in theory , leave more small fish for the birds , but sadly , ‘ industrial ’ fishing for even the smallest and immature fish is a fact of life which has serious implications for the very existence of our sea-bird communities should it be allowed to go on unchecked . |
| 4 | And if Marilyn Monroe wanted to be movies today , she 'd have to go on serious diet first . |
| 5 | It is all very well for us to sit here and tell teachers to go on extra courses , but they 're finding that there are n't any left , so the next thing that they can turn to the next person they can turn to is the educational psychologist . |
| 6 | One of the detrimental effects that Professor Taylor has observed is that managers can no longer find the time to go on external training courses . |
| 7 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 8 | Except to tell me to stop or to go on neither of them spoke throughout the whole hour of the journey to Amsterdam . |
| 9 | In selecting people for a job we are inclined to go on general appearance , whether we like the person , whether we would like to have him or her working for us . |
| 10 | Some will require you to go on various training courses , for others practical experience is what counts . |
| 11 | I need a new housekeeper , and I always prefer to go on personal recommendation . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That 's how it is ’ , they answered , ‘ he 's due to go on such-and-such a date ’ . |
| 13 | The best way of escaping from the top-ropers is to go on one of the long classics . |
| 14 | We made a lot of new friends and ca n't wait to go on one of your holidays again ’ . |
| 15 | But what fact is there in virtue of which the disposition then created was a disposition now to go on one way rather than another ? |
| 16 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 17 | Would any of the people who jeered Sinead at the Bob Dylan Concert in New York have the bottle to go on live prime-time TV , to criticise her ? |
| 18 | A call by the National Federation of Miners and Metalworkers ( FETIMMP ) to 80,000 miners to go on indefinite strike from June 17 was declared illegal by the government and was lifted by the union after two days . |
| 19 | I 'll give you the money to go on that . |
| 20 | There , Mortimer conducted a briefing for some fifty of his men , who had volunteered to go on that night 's operation . |
| 21 | We do n't need everybody to go on that |
| 22 | ‘ It 's difficult to go on that sort of holiday now we 've got Emily and we tend to stick to Europe , ’ says Mary Jane . |
| 23 | We 've only got about three minutes to go on that . |
| 24 | Whether they wanted to go on that job or not ? |
| 25 | Anyway , the show had to go on that night . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean we 've got to go on that ? ’ he said . |
| 27 | like the jaguar really be able to go on that long given er that er there 's an awful lot of errors in the Gulf apart from anything else . |
| 28 | I ca n't give any guarantee whatsoever that we will , but at least we will try and if that were to meet with your Lordships approval , then er I would be content to go on that basis . |
| 29 | Just got the buttons to go on that . |
| 30 | How far round do we have to go on that ? |