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

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1 My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father .
2 Kermode 's seminar established a useful informal link with the work going on at Cambridge , and the participants included Stephen Heath , Jonathan Culler , who was at that time teaching at Cambridge , and Culler 's then wife , Veronica Forrest-Thomson .
3 There was one classic occasion when the flare went out at Fawley refinery .
4 British audiences may derive enjoyment from laughing at the psychobabble , wincing at the plot contrivances and gaping at the crashingly obvious phallic symbolism , but the movie as a whole goes off at half-Hitchcock .
5 The ferry 's flag flew at half mast as the probe went on at Cork 's Ringaskiddy port .
6 The devices went off at Madame Tussauds , the London Planetarium , and the Imperial War Museum at Kennington .
7 Much experimentation went on at Hatfield and other colleges into courses of this kind , and the above example is only one out of very many which might have been cited .
8 But how could he rest with so much activity going on at UNACO headquarters ?
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