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

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1 She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed .
2 knows what is going on at all times within the department ;
3 going in at eighteen pounds for two .
4 It 's going in at ten pounds for it .
5 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 ?
6 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 .
7 Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment .
11 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 .
12 Such beachcombing activities go on at numerous places around our ‘ sceptred Isle ’ .
13 If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation .
14 Having been reduced to ten men after only 15 minutes , they continued to make chance after chance but went in at half time with only two goals of an advantage .
15 Town rallied and had a good effort from Kenny Campbell , well saved by keeper , Andy Hopping , after Roger Charles had found him with a great cross , but Harefield went in at half time with a deserved one nil lead .
16 The first poster went up at Oval station on April 14 .
17 Go up at all costs to Lescun , three steep miles from the main road in the mountains to the right , at a height of 3,000 feet .
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