Example sentences of "go [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
| 4 | What goes on at these ‘ ends ’ is intelligible only to those involved . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 7 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was nothing to go on at all . |
| 10 | There is absolutely nothing else to go on at all . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 12 | Well that he does he usually goes down at half six quarter to seven . |
| 13 | Folly tried to protest that she did n't want to go in at all , but her guide 's businesslike attitude and obvious haste made it difficult to intervene . |
| 14 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 15 | Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other . |
| 16 | but I , I mean Bev said you ought to go over at six o'clock in the morning , bang the bloody door |
| 17 | I think in a community one does come across practical snags , like for example the differences become very marked between the businessman who goes off at eight in the morning and comes back at six , week in week out , year in year out , with perhaps sort of three or four weeks holiday , and the university men who appear to be around an awful lot of the time and appear to have a lot of holiday . |
| 18 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 19 | it starts at quarter to eight , goes off at ten . |
| 20 | cos my alarm clock goes off at half-seven , it goes cockle-doodle-doo ! |
| 21 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 22 | The IRA claimed responsibility for the station attacks , blaming the Victoria casualties on " the cynical decision … not to evacuate railway stations " after a caller had warned 45 minutes earlier that bombs were to go off at all mainline stations . |
| 23 | Blagg is n't the type to go off at half cock — |
| 24 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 25 | One day outside Aigburth Huts , waiting to go off at 3 p.m. on the afternoon shift , two of us on a bike job . |
| 26 | We used to have to use a generator for our electricity and that used to go off at ten o'clock at night so if there was an operation that needed doing , there were two car batteries that were turned on and you used to have to do it by those . |
| 27 | What a way to spend the morning , hammering away at the base of a bomb that is likely to go off at any moment . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | While this was going on at one firm , the table split and the trainee dealer slipped and sprained his ankle . |
| 30 | The machine is called a ‘ Fourdrinier ’ machine and mimics the hand process in a continuous conveyor belt fashion with wet pulp going on at one end and a dry roll of paper at the other . |