Example sentences of "he go [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | ‘ 'E went out at four o'clock an' 'e was all nervy . |
2 | Oh , I did n't see him go up at all . |
3 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Well it 's Mr you see , he goes out at twelve o'clock on a Sunday and does n't get in till quarter to four . |
6 | Every night he goes out at half past ten , I said right . |
7 | I ca n't even be certain that he went through at four o'clock . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
12 | Yeah , he 's up there sound-o , and he was up this way , he went up at one and got up about ten minutes after this one , so |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 ? |