Example sentences of "go [adv prt] 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 ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 !
16 Royal Mail secretary Sarah McKay going out on a limb for charity
17 ‘ 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 . ’
18 Never looks good going out on a falling tide .
19 We 're going out on a early February to do whatsername Rodney from Only Fools and Horses .
20 it 's you know , for the workers , they 're going out on a meal .
21 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
22 As it goes r you 've heard something sort of er say an ashtray going round on a hard surface .
23 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 .
24 ‘ 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 .
25 How does she manage to go out on a training run the same day as she has run a major marathon when most other competitors are sitting with their feet up savouring the rest ?
26 Both he and Mickey Skinner have a limited number of appearances at Twickenham to look forward to and they will surely be anxious to go out on a high note .
27 The older child , 3 , likes to go out on a waveski , sitting between dad 's legs .
28 just to go out on a Monday with her , cos she does n't have nursery on a Monday , Tiffany .
29 If he 's done anything really wicked I do n't think HMG would be prepared to go out on a limb on his behalf .
30 I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it .
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