Example sentences of "go [adv] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 2 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 3 | No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 5 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 6 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 7 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 8 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 9 | Thus , for example , in order to understand what is going on at the local outside-level on Lewis , it is necessary to examine the structure of the oil industry as a whole . |
| 10 | The trend in a number of large corporate structures to remove layers of management to allow better communication and a clearer view of what is actually going on at the productive base is recognition that clear , unambiguous communication is a further mainspring in developing an organisation . |
| 11 | She did n't know much about art before but there was an exhibition of my Old Masters going on at the Royal Academy and she saw that , and was very enthusiastic about it , especially the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII . |
| 12 | the basis is you keep going in at the wrong level it 's the educational process at ground level |
| 13 | Bill Pritchard , whom we left going ashore at the Old Mole with his demolition control party and Philip Walton 's demolition squad , protected by Tiger Watson 's men , moved into the Old Town in commando fashion : each party , indeed each man , when alone , moved towards the target without waiting for support . |
| 14 | Hill was annoyed at not grabbing pole in the final qualifying session but said : ‘ I lost out in the traffic by going out at the wrong time . |
| 15 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 16 | First the social worker went in at the old man 's request , and tried to persuade the daughter and son-in-law to leave . |
| 17 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 18 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 19 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 20 | He has to get the barley , go out at the right time and sow it . |
| 21 | The comedian had gone backstage at the Grand Theatre , Blackpool , after Wednesday night 's performance of Sherlock Holmes : The Musical . |