Example sentences of "go [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , Bill always goes down on a Tuesday |
| 2 | Aye , and er you see I used to go over , I used to go over on a Sunday , when they came , if you , on the er well you see as I told you this chap here . |
| 3 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 4 | Erm she goes off on a Friday and you hear or see nothing till sort of Monday night . |
| 5 | As he was all poshed up in his best uniform , ready to go off on a 48-hour pass , he was not best pleased at this turn of events . |
| 6 | Now you 'll see him in a moment , he this guy driving he wants to go off on a slip road . |
| 7 | Er , yes , Mr Chairman , nationally it is going down , locally we 're , we 're going along on a plateau , erm , and in some areas it is actually go the incidence is going up , but this is basically like Scotland where they have n't got many anyway . |
| 8 | It was rather pathetic sometimes because he was upset at somebody going down on a discipline charge and getting the sack . |
| 9 | You going down on a weekend darling ? |
| 10 | About half a mile away an attack is going in on a hill , I can see Commandos advancing up the slopes , shells burst a short distance in front of the forward troops , probably covering fire from the British Artillery . |
| 11 | They will find it extremely difficult going outside on a bright day and may see very little on a sunny day . |
| 12 | Bunny was going home on a twenty-four-hour pass and Meredith returning from a week 's leave in Hoylake . |
| 13 | ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction . |
| 14 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 15 | And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis . |
| 16 | Because this was a Thursday and he had never thought of going out on a Thursday before , and because of the previous Saturday night , coming back to collect the washing . |
| 17 | Take your own advantage of the difficult atmosphere by realizing that things can not get much worse so it is worth while going out on a limb to say what you want to say without worrying about causing a negative reaction ! |
| 18 | Royal Mail secretary Sarah McKay going out on a limb for charity |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just that we 're not a noise band , ’ adds Mike , ‘ we do n't jump around the place but we 're totally comfortable with going out on a stage . ’ |
| 20 | Never looks good going out on a falling tide . |
| 21 | We 're going out on a early February to do whatsername Rodney from Only Fools and Horses . |
| 22 | it 's you know , for the workers , they 're going out on a meal . |
| 23 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 24 | Now we 're going fast on a downward slide |
| 25 | Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies . |
| 26 | You miss the encounter , but realize abruptly that you are a Blank Generation Kid going Nowhere on a Fast Track to Nothingness , and start spitting obscenely in deserted playgrounds . |
| 27 | As it goes r you 've heard something sort of er say an ashtray going round on a hard surface . |
| 28 | Extension is now going forward on a large scale , delays being due partly to the necessity of thorough surveys , partly to the shortage of skilled staff . |
| 29 | Geoff Wragg , the trainer of those colts , said : ‘ It 's the end of an era and it 's nice to go out on a high . |
| 30 | ‘ But to go out on a limb and take any bunch of morons , just those that happened to be around when he met Plumpton , and propose that they should do this thing — that 's really sticking your neck out . |