Example sentences of "go on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | THE Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are to go on a major visit to the Caribbean next February and March . |
| 32 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 33 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 34 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow , starting from Darlington Market Place at 9am . |
| 35 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow . |
| 36 | He once won a scholarship to go on a German banking state tour . |
| 37 | ‘ After all , I 've come to see someone about volunteering to go on a special mission to America . ’ |
| 38 | Six-year-old Robert , clutching a small brown teddy bear , will remember how he missed school to go on a sudden ‘ holiday ’ . |
| 39 | A number of courses give students an opportunity to go on a short relevant placement in an organization outside the University , where they gain experience of the world of work and in applying the skills they have learnt . |
| 40 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 41 | It 's got ta go on a steel pallet and yet next door in the export chiller they 're allowed to go on a wooden pallet and we work on wooden pallets erm |
| 42 | Participants will also have the chance to go on a residential weekend . |
| 43 | We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip . |
| 44 | EIGHT hours of athletics at Bebington on Saturday will go a long way to deciding who goes on a two-day trip to Blackpool next month . |
| 45 | Goes on a long time does it ? |
| 46 | The ticket was issued at the car park adjacent to the Oxford City Ice Rink , where the school goes on a regular basis . |
| 47 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman was asked extensively by Mr. Frost — I have the transcript here and it goes on a fair bit — about Labour 's policy . |
| 48 | And then it goes on a strict reminder . |
| 49 | After that , the system , regarded pretty much as Unix SVR4 with proprietary extensions for real-time and multi-processing , goes on a maintenance-only basis . |
| 50 | The Hunter and The Hunted Pauline Barrie goes on a local walkabout around west London galleries |
| 51 | A MAN who went on a violent rampage , breaking bottles and glasses in a pub and attacking a woman and a police officer , claimed his drinks had been spiked with drugs . |
| 52 | She left early for her morning swim at Buckingham Palace and later went on a 35-minute errand . |
| 53 | Again , the Morant Bay rising in Jamaica in 1865 was put down with savage majesty by Governor Eyre — 600 men , women and children indiscriminately massacred , many more hundreds executed , and a thousand homes burned to the ground — as Eyre 's troops went on a three-week orgy of hanging , torture , flogging and rape . |
| 54 | Charles Starkweather , the rebel without a cause who , in 1957 , went on a casual killing spree with his fourteen-year-old girlfriend in tow , ended up on screen as Kit Carruthers in Badlands . |
| 55 | He went on a long journey , was weary , worn-out with labour , and returning engraved on a stone the whole story . " |
| 56 | He went on a long journey , was weary worn out with labour , and returning engraved on a stone the whole story . " |
| 57 | In early 1944 I was asked by the Burma Government if I would consider deputising for B.R. Pearn while he went on a much-needed furlough . |
| 58 | The 100 manufacturers , eager to cash in on the huge Christmas sales of computer games , rubbed their hands with delight as people went on a recession-busting spending spree . |
| 59 | From there she went on a punishing schedule of visits to the US , Scandinavia and Japan before returning to Australia , which still remains very much her home . |
| 60 | Transexual Derek Arnell , 28 , underwent hormone transplants and breast implants and was months away from completing the transformation when he went on a fateful girls ' night out . |