Example sentences of "go [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When IC1 pin 2 goes high at the end of the timing period , current flows into transistor TR1 base ( b ) through current limiting resistor , R5 . |
| 2 | Whereas , even if nothing goes wrong at the weekend , Mr Smith will have made himself miserable for days in advance . |
| 3 | It 's something that goes wrong at the nerve muscle junctions ? |
| 4 | Goes round like this and then it goes square at the back . |
| 5 | Everything goes soft at the knees , as if fumed with poppy . |
| 6 | Now we know the real meaning of going weak at the knees . |
| 7 | She 'd always thought that the phrase ‘ going weak at the knees ’ was an over-used cliché with no reference to reality , yet that was exactly how she felt . |
| 8 | Instead , here she was , going weak at the knees like an adolescent schoolgirl . |
| 9 | ‘ Everything seems to be going wrong at the moment . ’ |
| 10 | With just one goal in five games you do n't have to be an expert to see where Oxford are going wrong at the moment . |
| 11 | He was going bald at the front , she noticed . |
| 12 | Sweat pours from beneath my hat , and my shorts are going raggy at the hem . |
| 13 | FIRMS are now going bust at the rate of THREE an HOUR . |
| 14 | He was quite old , Carrie decided , looking at the creases in his pink , cushiony cheeks and the way his hair was going thin at the sides . |
| 15 | Going blue at the edges . |
| 16 | Unemployment is up from 1.7 million to 2.7 million ; home repossessions are running at 75,000 a year ; companies are going bankrupt at the rate of 1,000 a week . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're goin' barmy at the wharf . |
| 18 | SCOTT Garthwaite 's mum Susan thought he would never hear again when he went deaf at the age of two . |
| 19 | She went weak at the thought . |
| 20 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 21 | All the snotty spotty little nerds who support them , who would go weak at the knees and soil themselves if they ever ever went to see MUFC and met the abovementioned evil evil types . |
| 22 | There was something about his voice that moved her , made her go weak at the knees . |
| 23 | IT 'S the picture to make even the strongest beefcake Gladiator go weak at the knees as the stars of the hit TV series show off their biggest fans , the Gladiatots . |
| 24 | For the slightest skirl of the pipes makes the retired cleaner go WEAK at the knees , break out in a cold SWEAT and SHAKE uncontrollably . |
| 25 | Show me a woman who says Dane Jacobsen does n't make her go weak at the knees and I 'll show you a liar ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Show me a woman who says Dane Jacobsen does n't make her go weak at the knees , and I 'll show you a liar ! ’ |
| 27 | A : It 's gone brown at the sides . |
| 28 | As a contributor to a recent survey on ‘ comparability in social research ’ , published under the auspices of the British Social Science Research Council , sagely observes : ‘ a great deal can go wrong at the recording stage which may make subsequent analysis difficult or even impossible ’ . |
| 29 | Well you 're right yes , it would be this year but I did n't go much at the end of last year did I ? |
| 30 | He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy . |