Example sentences of "go [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 2 | Another problem may be that you only have one machine for both recording and playback so that only one of these activities can go on at one time . |
| 3 | It is , then , because he is explaining differences and resemblances as he is that Darwin , in 1838 , needs a theory of purely opportunistic adaptive change in changing conditions , a theory making no developmentalist assumption as to a preferred direction that life will take provided it can go on at all . |
| 4 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 5 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 6 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 7 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |
| 8 | they 're racing against the clock at Prescott Hill climb in Gloucestershire this weekend … as the Midland Championship reaches the half way stage … practice gets underway in the morning … the green light for the competition runs will go on at 10 on Sunday … |
| 9 | However Roberts did n't go down at all well with the Sheffield audience . |
| 10 | I 'll go in at first , I 'll see how much that 's gon na be which is about seven hundred pounds . |
| 11 | Occasionally , after refreshments — two would go in at two o'clock , two more at half past two , and so on — the only time you could have a natter with your colleague was when you left the station and you saw the sergeant going in for his refreshments . |
| 12 | Yeah , I 'm talking about how it arises from the evolution point of view , as an not , I do n't go in at all to the whole neurological question , or how the brain is produced consciously . |
| 13 | We would n't go in at a , I would n't go in at all , but Stuart 's mum used to live right opposite and she likes to go in occasionally cos she sees all her old friends , she do n't see them very often so she likes to go in and see all her old friends , otherwise I do n't |
| 14 | No , no but you might go in at that time wanting help |
| 15 | Now that plants in containers can go in at any time when the ground is not frozen or sodden , many gardeners opt for the spring or early summer . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you what we 'll go over at half past four will it be finished by then ? |
| 17 | When you 'd done your thirty years , you 'd go off at two-thirds pension . |
| 18 | On location in Ceylon , Vivien and Peter Finch would go off at 2 o'clock in the morning to celebrate . |
| 19 | ‘ It can go off at any time , ’ says Nayab . |
| 20 | Alone with Guido in the little boat , she 'd felt a constant sense of danger , like sitting on a time bomb that might go off at any second . |
| 21 | Oh , I did n't see him go up at all . |
| 22 | In fact , prices can go up at any time , not necessarily in April . |
| 23 | You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis . |
| 24 | Did n't go out at all ? |
| 25 | ‘ You are quite sure that you did not go out at all last evening ? ’ |
| 26 | I do n't go out at all ! |
| 27 | Yeah I think I 'll walk down to Green went out for a couple of hours in the morning felt grotty did n't go out at all . |
| 28 | We do n't go out at all now , do we ? |
| 29 | In a sense I was pretty ill , because I would go out at eight o'clock in the evening , having recovered from the appalling hangover caused by my previous night 's activities in Cairo , and re-establish my illness by that night 's activities . ’ |
| 30 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |