Example sentences of "go [adv] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 4 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 5 | Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available . |
| 6 | Blagg is n't the type to go off at half cock — |
| 7 | What a way to spend the morning , hammering away at the base of a bomb that is likely to go off at any moment . |
| 8 | But they were n't totally happy — for it was confirmed that the interrogation of the prisoner — going on at that moment — would reveal where the stuff had gone . |
| 9 | If an organiser does not co-ordinate and monitor and know exactly what 's going on at each stage , then ultimately he has only himself to blame if something goes wrong . |
| 10 | knows what is going on at all times within the department ; |
| 11 | Pooling of clients and vendors is envisaged : ‘ Both parties should know what 's going on at both ends ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You had a reason for going there at that time ? ’ |
| 14 | The strong winds took their toll throughout the day with most competitors finding themselves going overboard at some point during the faces , which came under the control of Bolton Sailing Club officials . |
| 15 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 16 | ‘ They made the usual checks then , because I was allowed to go back at any time if there was a problem , they let me go home . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | But of course there had been no communication between her aunt and Silas for three years , therefore she was unlikely to be aware of what went on at this back-blocks property . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
| 22 | They looked lovely on the mantelpiece in the flat but a new bouquet would not go astray at this stage . |
| 23 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 24 | No , no but you might go in at that time wanting help |
| 25 | Now that plants in containers can go in at any time when the ground is not frozen or sodden , many gardeners opt for the spring or early summer . |
| 26 | er , I know that erm , they were bad when we went down at half term |
| 27 | I thought it was rather a bad sign that I was told I could , as a family friend , go in at any time . |
| 28 | He said just go in at any time and we 'll pick it up . |
| 29 | I had strong words about our defending when we went in at half time . |
| 30 | Having been reduced to ten men after only 15 minutes , they continued to make chance after chance but went in at half time with only two goals of an advantage . |