Example sentences of "go [adv prt] at [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 11 | The first poster went up at Oval station on April 14 . |