Example sentences of "go on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's plenty going on i' Skipton . ’ |
| 2 | Because you 'll be going on two visits one to the skiing and one to the Edale |
| 3 | We were going on cross-country skis pulling pulks ( little sledges ) . |
| 4 | Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers . |
| 5 | No it 's not going on loud Charlotte , I do not want to be deafened by Michael Jackson thank you , I think that 's quite loud enough |
| 6 | Balancing the books is going to be tricky … going on recent balance sheets around three million pounds will be needed up front to pay off debts and buy the Maxwell family shares … and then presumably more money will have to be invested to beat off losses of fifteen thousand pounds a week … the club 's managing director Pat McGeough is hoping to do a deal within the next few days … its not simple … its not clear cut … but for the first time win weeks United are confident about the future |
| 7 | I do n't understand what 's going on Prime Minister . |
| 8 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 9 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 10 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
| 11 | Preparations for the Queen 's visit to the new unit have been going on all day . |
| 12 | He 's been going on all day old boy . |
| 13 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 14 | What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines . |
| 15 | And that time we saw him he said he definitely were n't going on that holiday . |
| 16 | there 's something , something going on that leg all the time like a pain or something like it |
| 17 | There were 16 other games going on that day and there could have been a score of bad incidents missed by the referee . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know whether it was like Howard Hughes and cleanliness , but it was going on that way . ’ |
| 19 | The three episodes on the £10.99 tape see her supervising her sister 's stormy love life , going on that yachting holiday and planning a trip on the QE2 . |
| 20 | I mean he she was going on that tape about she had to replace some things . |
| 21 | instead of going on that grass . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't forget mind Yant , any fags or booze going on that ship … . ’ |
| 23 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
| 24 | Ter Terry 's going on one stage |
| 25 | going on public transport and just |
| 26 | Cos also , I do n't mind , mind going on public transport as long as I know how to get there . |
| 27 | Police in Hemel Hempstead are asking shoppers and pubgoers to watch videos of missing four year old Simon Jones which are going on public view . |
| 28 | This profile contains information such as : what they consider to be their mother tongue , ( which is not always a straightforward matter ) , what other language with whom , in what medium and in which domain etc. , ) what other languages they have learned , acquired and used in their lives and also highlights the diverse linguistic abilities that people already have before going on any course — this often comes as something of a surprise — even to the people concerned ! |
| 29 | I would have no difficulty whatever in going on any hustings and waxing eloquent about foul sewage coming up in the wrong places . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , many people who might otherwise have gone on to Government employment schemes have been deterred from doing so because of the difficulty in finding jobs as a result of going on those schemes . |