Example sentences of "go on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on a bit … ’ |
| 2 | Goes on a bit thick . |
| 3 | So you 've got the children tomorrow lunchtime , you 've got the band tomorrow evening , but the library exhibition goes on a bit longer ? |
| 4 | It goes on a lot better than Amy 's . |
| 5 | Goes on an hour |
| 6 | it goes , it goes on an hour |
| 7 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 8 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 9 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 10 | Yeah because he 's got to go on a month 's course for a start , for just general and then we 've got to try and find him a a week 's course somewhere as A L O , I do n't know where but er in that time . |
| 11 | Paul battered John after going on a night of ‘ louting ’ . |
| 12 | I do n't suggest that I think I should keep going on a year by year basis . |
| 13 | A load of schoolchildren going on a day out . |
| 14 | I thought we were going on a bit . |
| 15 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 16 | like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about , |
| 17 | We 're all going on a Summer holiday for a week or two me and you |
| 18 | They also liked it — as did the other villages — for the spiteful inter-village competitiveness that lay under the seemingly innocent accounts of the Snead Women 's Institute going on an Easter outing to Weston-super-Mare , while the Quindale branch could only muster a local dried-flower expert whose crisp and solid arrangements , adorned with bows of florist 's ribbon , they could all have recognized in their sleep . |
| 19 | Sheila and Annie did go on a bit last time . |
| 20 | Right , let's go on a bit further , so we 've just done concussion , compression er the next one is an illness , epilepsy now epilepsy , two types , you get the petit mal which is the small fit and the grand mal which is the erm large fit or the full , full fit . |
| 21 | might go on a bit Shut me gob . |
| 22 | You wan na go on a summer trip to Austria . |
| 23 | It 'll be a good three months before she shows , and , with skilful dressing , she could go on a lot longer . ’ |
| 24 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 25 | JACKO kept fuming police waiting for nearly an hour as he went on a midnight shopping spree — for new toys . |
| 26 | I dreamt I went I think I went to France , I think I was , I went on a day trip to France |
| 27 | His operational flying looked as promising as his civilian flying had , until he went on a night bombing raid over Constantinople . |
| 28 | Erm I think , yeah , o over elaborate erm explanation of why the C C Q , that went on a bit long . |
| 29 | It 's not as if one went on a week 's course and sat around specifically thinking about one 's courses . |
| 30 | If these are easily achieved we go on a bit longer . |