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

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1 Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level .
2 The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level .
3 ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm .
4 In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description .
5 Now the deal looks likely to go through at a whopping $7.5 billion , about $110 a share .
6 This may have embarrassed Loughborough 's Richard Wareham , the tight-head who played in the England Under-21 front row when they hammered Romania in Bucharest last May , and the youngsters continued to go backwards at a rate of knots in tight and loose .
7 Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling .
8 These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) .
9 They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions .
10 There 's a lot going on at a very fast speed .
11 erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ?
12 ‘ It hardly shows , ’ said Cadfael thoughtfully , going off at a surprising tangent .
13 You 're talking about er three thirty mil going out at a premium price , erm your one litre at an economy price and your two litre back at a premium price .
14 ‘ They will have their tails up and I do n't think we could be going there at a harder time .
15 It is a replacement , we were losing that money erm because the , the water meter was going round at a pound an hour .
16 As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere .
17 And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour …
18 If you want information to go out at a specific time , time it very carefully , and just bung it out , as it were , and , and reckon it 's there at that stage .
19 From then onwards the transformation of the English landscape , or of a considerable part of it , went on at a revolutionary pace .
20 Some of these ‘ emotional bindings ’ go on at a level below the surface of normal awareness .
21 And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down .
22 I think we have gone in at a very sensible price , and I am sure the other contractors did .
23 She turned Midnight on his hocks and went away at a canter .
24 ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’
25 ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’
26 I mean it 's crazy , why do n't they have the conference time at ten o'clock in the morning , and have the conference and everybody go home at a decent time , it 's silly .
27 But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work .
28 Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent
29 It was Martin who took the reins and as he cried , ‘ Gee-up ! you there , you flibbertigibbet ! ’ the horse , as if recognising the voice , tossed its head and went off at a spanking pace down the road , and as they laughed , Harry said , ‘ Would you believe it !
30 He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him .
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