Example sentences of "go [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 2 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 3 | I 've never been able to find out what goes on at the ceremony , but , from what I 've heard , there is more to it than rolling up your trouser-leg . |
| 4 | That 's where all the official entertaining goes on at the regatta — just to give you an idea of the scale of it , they 'll be putting away 50,000 pints of Pimm 's , 6,000 bottles of champagne and 3,000 pounds of strawbnerries . |
| 5 | Power stations , oil refineries , dairy farms , newspapers , hospitals , simply have to go on at the weekend , and often through nights as well as days . |
| 6 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 7 | No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’ |
| 8 | And then , you see , then the erm er the bus fare , you got as reduced rate , to go in early , so I used to go in at the usu about from the last bus I could go in cheap , and then walk to Trent Bridge , and back , it was very nice . |
| 9 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 10 | Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace . |
| 11 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 12 | The try came after good work by Gordon Lawrie and then a blindside move featuring Mike Allingham and Andy McRobbie which allowed Russell Adam to go over at the corner . |
| 13 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 14 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 15 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 16 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 17 | One of the most productive nurseries in the world , the Yorkshire League , has become almost barren and the time has come to pluck from another , rich in blossoms — Shivaji Park , Bombay , where you can stand on the roof-top of the small pavilion and watch 15 games going on at the same time . |
| 18 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 19 | The trend in a number of large corporate structures to remove layers of management to allow better communication and a clearer view of what is actually going on at the productive base is recognition that clear , unambiguous communication is a further mainspring in developing an organisation . |
| 20 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 21 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , in order to understand what is going on at the local outside-level on Lewis , it is necessary to examine the structure of the oil industry as a whole . |
| 23 | Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen . |
| 24 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 25 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 26 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 27 | I have told them not to get involved in what 's going on at the club . ’ |
| 28 | With so much going on at the office , it is a wonder that Mr Lawrence has much time left for anything else . |
| 29 | As newspapers claimed the princess was undertaking the visit against her will , a Palace spokesman said : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment by making any comment . ’ |
| 30 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |