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

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1 When IC1 pin 2 goes high at the end of the timing period , current flows into transistor TR1 base ( b ) through current limiting resistor , R5 .
2 Instead , here she was , going weak at the knees like an adolescent schoolgirl .
3 FIRMS are now going bust at the rate of THREE an HOUR .
4 Unemployment is up from 1.7 million to 2.7 million ; home repossessions are running at 75,000 a year ; companies are going bankrupt at the rate of 1,000 a week .
5 SCOTT Garthwaite 's mum Susan thought he would never hear again when he went deaf at the age of two .
6 She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home .
7 He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy .
8 Remember , more companies go bust at the beginning of a recovery than at any other time . ’
9 And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work .
10 I know about this bit from a telephone call from John — and I can still remember the click as the line went dead at the end of that conversation .
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