Example sentences of "go at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now this , is this is going at a fantastic rate .
2 Half a mile , and he was right up my arse and I was going at a far pace
3 I do n't get the impression from MIND 's local network that the hospital closure programme is going at a reasonable pace . ’
4 The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature .
5 It 's going at a steady speed .
6 So you 're going at a steady speed .
7 Before he had disappeared , she was yards away , going at a dead run .
8 Right , B two if a train is going at a constant speed of ninety miles per hour how far will it go in two hours ?
9 And if you work on that presumption , and I 'm not suggesting you creep around frightened of your own shadow going at a slow speed , just wor working with deliberation and making sure you move through the situation competently , but do n't take anything for granted .
10 Surely there were many which went at a slow tempo , such as the first Beethoven Modlinger Dance I mentioned in my original article , the rapid-fire tattoos of its French horns ensuring a slow pace .
11 Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas .
12 ‘ But , when it 's switched on , the motor will go at a good jogging speed , though you need to pedal a bit to get the pace up .
13 Andy Linighan can go at a cut-price £750,000 ; Paul Davies and defender Stephen Morrow at £500,000 apiece and Colin Pates for £250,000 .
14 Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour .
15 A man on horseback was circling the water , the reins slack in his hands to let his mount go at an idle walk .
16 ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it .
17 He can not claim on the one hand to be at the heart of Europe and at the same time want to be on the periphery of Europe and seem to want us to go at a slower speed than anyone else .
18 A hundred jobs are to go at a medical factory over the next two years .
19 Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed .
20 Almost a hundred jobs are to go at a lift-making factory .
21 Ada Younger is to go out to Zimbabwe in the late summer and hopes to arrange for a group from the church to go at a later date .
22 The second movement goes at a spanking pace and the Adagio is fluent and rapt , with the climax more dramatic than usual , almost menacing .
23 It had been discovered in the eighteenth century that light does not travel instantaneously from source to observer ; rather , it goes at a certain speed , about 186,000 miles ( 300,000 kilometers ) a second .
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