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

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1 He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari .
5 He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living .
6 Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him .
7 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 ?
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