Example sentences of "go [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 2 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 3 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 4 | Where this factor-augmenting technical progress is going on at constant exponential rates , the production function may be written ( 8–15 ) where K denotes the rate of capital augmentation and the rate of labour augmentation . |
| 5 | There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps . |
| 6 | They are going along at vast speeds , and I say vast speeds , they 're twenty miles an hour over the grass and you can imagine how much they 're cutting . |
| 7 | Well it 's , I mean it 's letting them know what 's going off at other prisons . |
| 8 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 9 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 10 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 11 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 12 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 15 | Such beachcombing activities go on at numerous places around our ‘ sceptred Isle ’ . |
| 16 | In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there . |
| 17 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The first poster went up at Oval station on April 14 . |
| 20 | Broadcast schedules have to be planned in advance , programmes go out at regular times and have slots of fixed length . |
| 21 | She really should go out at unaccustomed times more often , she thought . |