Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | yo seventeen off , I said , and the order 's mine , then I went in at twenty percent . |
2 | I mean looking at the game you just could n't believe United would only get a point out of it erm when you went in at half time only one nil up , you so dominated the game I do n't think Charlton had a chance did they ? |
3 | I had strong words about our defending when we went in at half time . |
4 | er , I know that erm , they were bad when we went down at half term |
5 | He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed . |
6 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
7 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
8 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
9 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |