Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] go at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Something instantly circulated through me like an essence of fire , and striding with wider steps I determined to go at once for my model , to begin tomorrow and to make the most of my actual situation . |
| 2 | Do n't worry , I did go at a pace . |
| 3 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 4 | I 'll let you have go at |
| 5 | ‘ She chose to go at a very inconvenient time , I must say ’ |
| 6 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 7 | She continued to go at night for his fish and chips , and on return had to submit to the smelling of her breath . |
| 8 | We had , we had to get there before six , when they shut , we had to go at half past five , . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're behind , so we have to go at them . |
| 10 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 11 | Particularly when we 're trying to get juveniles into the club I mean they want to go at ten possibly you owe them not starting till |
| 12 | and they keep their reading books from the li their library going at the pace they want to go at |
| 13 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 14 | He says although it is a small haul if they keep going at it they will get results . |
| 15 | Yes , I mean I 've got to say that , I thought they kept going at two nothing down you know sides , and I 've played in games where you 're playing top opposition and you can go under a little bit ca n't you ? |
| 16 | No but they do go at half past |
| 17 | They 've gone at Finchley and almost everywhere else . |
| 18 | The problem , the problem with Germany is , as you say , they 're flooding the market , they 've , they 've gone at it from one end only . |
| 19 | She says when we come in the summer there are geese , then they 've gone at Christmas to be eaten . |
| 20 | And before they come in the mornings I tidy up , I , well after they 've gone at night |
| 21 | Well , I say , he tend to go at eleven and three , so think about it . |
| 22 | It is small wonder that Dr Underwood finds it a ‘ little disconcerting ’ as the inference of the inquiry , as far as it has gone at present , would appear to be that it is better for a child to stay in East London sleeping irregular hours in ill ventilated shelters and eating fish and chips than to have fresh air conditions in one of our Camps with regular hours of sleep and plenty of well prepared wholesome food ( in which vegetables fresh from the garden play a large part ) forming a diet balanced in accordance with the best advice obtainable from the Board of Education and others … |
| 23 | Never again did he remember going at anything with such concentration . |
| 24 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 25 | He liked seeing her like that , even although he was cowering under his coat collar trying to keep dry , still surprised at how easily it had gone at home . |