Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adv prt] at [noun] " 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 | Another suggestion is that it was a fulfilment of a prophecy such as ‘ I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight ’ ( Amos 8:9 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The researches into medical education going on at places like Southampton and Dundee confirm that smaller adjustments to medical courses can have useful effects on how students learn . |
| 7 | The ferry 's flag flew at half mast as the probe went on at Cork 's Ringaskiddy port . |
| 8 | ‘ Bill , what would you do if one of the gang went out at night and told someone all about us , and what we 'd done ? |
| 9 | In the hope that deteriorating wartime conditions in Vietnam would spark insurrection , a liberation army of sorts was being formed on the border ; but when the attack went off at half-cock ( leaders executed or arrested and followers dispersed ) another threat to the French position was removed and it must have become clear that the only credible threat to French power lay in France itself , at least until the forces of nationalism were able to attract some effective outside sponsorship or else embed themselves in the people to the point where they became an organized national resistance . |
| 10 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But there was a lot going on at school . |
| 13 | But how could he rest with so much activity going on at UNACO headquarters ? |
| 14 | And we let the fire go out at night . |
| 15 | So the woman from the first House went out at night and burnt the rival House to the ground . |