Example sentences of "going [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 2 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 3 | We will want to be able to build high capacity systems so going to take on the class of applications that have traditionally been associated with a mainframe . |
| 4 | The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world . |
| 5 | But no European country , not even Britain , is going to take on the burden of a post-imperial military presence in the Persian Gulf . |