Example sentences of "going [adv] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Saturday morning , some two weeks after Mrs Frizzell 's encounter with Mrs Stych , Mr Frizzell was seated at his office desk in a glassed-in area above the garage proper , from whence he could see all that was going on at both back and front of his property . |
| 2 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 3 | And after about four months I thought I was strong enough to tackle the weight , and that it would n't be too much going on at once . |
| 4 | America 's Chrysler , he points out , claims to have an incredible 150 re-engineering efforts going on at once . |
| 5 | She does n't like crowds of adoring relatives and friends , and becomes distressed when too much is going on at once . |
| 6 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
| 7 | Avoid fussiness — too much going on at once — too much chopping and changing about . |
| 8 | colours , that means you can double bank on the lawn , you can have two games going on at once . |
| 9 | By Manchester Monday I 'm sitting in Dry surprised to discover that that was only their second gig , and there are only five of them — Tony , Phil and Richard , who are mostly responsible for the music , guitarist Paul , and vocalist Theresa — when live it sounds like at least 20 keyboards going down at once . |
| 10 | ‘ I will be going down at least once a fortnight , the children enjoy all the sporting facilities and social life . |
| 11 | Mary Alice flew in the low box and bombed an airfield in France , going in at only 12,000 ‘ ft ‘ . |
| 12 | Shotgun ‘ It was like both barrels of a 12-bore shotgun going off at once . ’ |
| 13 | At this time Scott might have had twenty-five or thirty houses going up at once . |
| 14 | ‘ Fuck you , ’ the Maggot screamed at whoever fired at him and I looked out of the Beechcraft 's side window to see palm trees going past at over 150 miles an hour and above us . |
| 15 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 16 | Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period . |
| 17 | This new hawkish perspective builds upon a strand in US policy going back at least to Kennedy , which argues that the USA must possess a force structure that would enable a nuclear war to be fought and won ( Ikle , 1973 ) . |
| 18 | Chomsky and Sampson claim that this tree-like decomposition of a sentence into its parts is a feature common to all human language , and is indeed the basis upon which we determine the meaning of a sentence from the way it is built up out of its parts ( an insight going back at least to Frege ) . |
| 19 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 20 | Fortunately , most local record offices contain an abundance of sources for local history , going back at least two hundred years . |
| 21 | The scope for disagreement between plaintiffs and defendants has been narrowed by the move by district registries to publish hourly rates going back at least five years . |
| 22 | Certainly , but then De Gaulle was only the most recent of a line of French national leaders , going back at least as far as Joan of Arc , who have seen in the English , through most of the centuries , their main enemy , whereas of course we did n't come across Germany internationally at all until within the last ninety years . |
| 23 | ‘ That typewriter 's going back at once , ’ he said inadequately . |