Example sentences of "to go on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wish I did n't have to go on watch . ’ |
| 2 | The cold of the ground slowly seeped through Riven 's bedroll to chill his back , and he edged closer to the fire , sick of the aches in his bones and counting out in his mind the hours before he had to go on watch . |
| 3 | Judges are receiving firearms training from police but have threatened to go on strike as promised protection has not materialised . |
| 4 | If workers hold a democratic vote to go on strike for whatever reason , it ill becomes a Labour government to legislate to make it unlawful . |
| 5 | WELL , IF you want to go on strike , the place to do it is obviously the London borough of Barnet . |
| 6 | At the government-controlled newspaper Izvestia , the staff threatened to go on strike when their editor , who is a Kravchenko-like conservative , tried to get rid of his liberal deputy by giving him a cushy job as Madrid correspondent . |
| 7 | The gondoliers threatened to go on strike and all the floodlights on the night of the show were mysteriously switched off because someone had n't had their palm greased . |
| 8 | As it happened , the morning that the drivers decided to go on strike , I was up early at Kyalami . |
| 9 | It tends to go on strike by pulling a muscle or twisting a joint . |
| 10 | My only weapon in my bid for autonomy was to go on strike . |
| 11 | We were in New York , and came round a corner to find fifteen Father Christmases trying to decide whether or not to go on strike . |
| 12 | Women were therefore forced either to go on strike or to occupy factories in order to gain the right to a collective contract and recognition of their union . |
| 13 | At an age when I was having qualms over the philosophy of M. Bergson , he was speaking in a factory yard of the necessity to go on strike . |
| 14 | The trade union representing the workforce at these plants had threatened to go on strike if their jobs are put at risk . |
| 15 | FRENCH labour exchange employees were the latest to go on strike — in protest at mounting work caused by rising joblessness — as labour unrest proliferated yesterday . |
| 16 | Ticket clerks irritated by a new automated reservation system have threatened to go on strike today . |
| 17 | Mr Major replied : ‘ Workers who choose to go on strike have always faced the risk of being dismissed without the right to claim unfair dismissal . |
| 18 | to go on strike because of it . |
| 19 | It 's a crisis about to get worse , because the farmers of Yarislavl are set to go on strike , if their demands are n't met , then one of the largest agricultural centres in the country will cut supplies of milk , poultry and meat . |
| 20 | Murad II was about to go on campaign , however , and in his haste gave Hocazade only a provincial kadilik , that of Kestel near Bursa . |
| 21 | Before you leave school to go on Work Experience you will be told which teacher to contact if you have any problems . |
| 22 | Yes and then being with government people , they had to go on trek |
| 23 | ‘ Afterwards I want to go on haj , to visit Mecca . |
| 24 | When they were well inside the British Line Finlayson motioned Tribe to go on home , while he and Richards went back . |
| 25 | At the end of the evening Surkov was surrounded by a group of admirers soliciting autographs , and he shouted at us to go on back to the hotel , he would join us in a while . |
| 26 | But he always liked being asked for his opinion : it made him feel important and he had never understood why people needed to go on assertiveness courses . |
| 27 | No matter how bad the storm was she had to go on deck , where at least the air was clean . |
| 28 | Men with malaria now had to go on patrol . |
| 29 | I 'm wondering if I should ring them actually , from unit , and ask them if tell them what 's happening and will she be able to go on Income Support if she does give it up ? |
| 30 | Once the Invasion was well under way , we were allowed to go on leave again . |