Example sentences of "go [adv] at the [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’
2 Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace .
3 They refused to go home at the end of their shift and worked frantically to reach him .
4 1 What is going on at the beginning of the poem ? 2 What do you think has happened before the poem begins ? 3 Do you think the boys are afraid ?
5 ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes .
6 Should he ask him what was going on at the top of the Ministry and why they were resurrecting the Zoser case ?
7 It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing .
8 They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies .
9 You know , I mean we 're here , well are you going down at the end of the week or something ?
10 If you go on holiday for a month , you want another pay cheque going in at the end of the month .
11 ‘ I 'm going home at the end of the week and I 'll make arrangements to go to Geneva as soon as possible .
12 But it does seem that he had some hint of the future : not only does his idea of the arena in which Pandemonium ( 1831 ) took place look like Wembley Stadium but his high-rise Tower of Babel in Belshazzar 's Feast might almost have been modelled on the General Accident Life building now going up at the side of Lendal Bridge on the way to York 's Railway Station .
13 We 're talking about hundreds , not thousands here because there are six hundred clubs , so we 're talking , but I think though we , we hope to be able to give significant amounts of money to pay for perhaps safety boats , perhaps instructors , perhaps rescue boat fuel , enough to kick-start these courses off which is important and those forms are going out at the end of the week and when the money 's gone we 'll stop giving the grants out .
14 The mystery deepened when , instead of going seaward at the foot of the hill , they turned up the right bank of the Touques as if making for Deauville .
15 ‘ I am going there at the peak of my form , ’ he says .
16 Froissart 's account of the way in which many of the leading French nobility , by going forward at the battle of Crécy , in effect chose the likelihood of death to a dishonourable flight , suggests to the modern reader a group more intent upon self-immolation than upon the serious business of achieving victory through order and discipline .
17 And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises .
18 The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m .
19 Preston and London East are already there ( CONGRATULATIONS ! ) and I know you have all been working hard to ensure the National Assessment goes well at the end of November .
20 There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected .
21 She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play .
22 you go in at the top of
23 No cos I 've seen this done before right , I mean it 's over a certain time , but if you go in at the end of the time
24 This is the process that programmers go through at the beginning of a job to understand existing code .
25 A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ?
26 The difference was that he could go home at the end of every shift .
27 They went home at the end of the afternoon , just is the cloud slid back like a shutter and let clear yellow light stream along the valley from the west .
28 They were meant to be devoid of personal feelings , deadpan , like lawyers who had to defend a case they did n't believe in , who went home at the end of the day leaving all their patients ' foibles filed away in their consulting rooms .
29 Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover .
30 For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world .
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