Example sentences of "went [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 2 | I would usually be at the foot of the platform stairs as Billy went on at the start . |
| 3 | It was precisely that peculiar combination of laisser-faire rule over the kingdom at large , but absolute personal involvement with all that went on at the centre , in institutional as well as individual and personal affairs , which is the notable quality of kingship in Scotland and explains the high level of prestige and control which the crown enjoyed . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't care what went on at the party unless it was blatantly against the law . |
| 5 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 6 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 7 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 8 | Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp . |
| 9 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 10 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 11 | First the social worker went in at the old man 's request , and tried to persuade the daughter and son-in-law to leave . |
| 12 | It practically went in at the nose . |
| 13 | We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep . |
| 14 | Erm that I went through at the beginning you know which is basically write to lots of people |
| 15 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 16 | never tell , a girl we know went over at the same time as he did got it this year . |
| 17 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 18 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 19 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 20 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 21 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 22 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |
| 23 | Went up at the doctor 's |
| 24 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 25 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 26 | In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening . |
| 27 | If I went out at the age of 68 at Drury Lane to celebrate Rory Bremner 's 50 years in showbusiness and I had n't got my pyjamas on , somebody would shout ‘ Where 's your pyjamas ’ ? ’ |
| 28 | I went back at the weekend and it was a pile of rubble . |