Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter . |
| 2 | F worked out at a half . |
| 3 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 4 | Outside its gate a battered estate-car was parked ; Maud drew up at a distance , and together they walked in . |
| 5 | Rincewind looked up at a number of impassive , upside down faces . |
| 6 | As the Cheshires sped away , soldiers in one of the Land Rovers leaped out at a road block to take up positions in a ditch and provide covering fire with their SA80 automatic rifles . |
| 7 | Dolly looked up at a knock on the door . |
| 8 | The Glovers stood around at a loss ; this did not seem to be the sort of place in which business could be carried on . |
| 9 | Prentice put his arms round Rory 's neck and got up onto his back ; Rory set off at a run . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , police last night hit back at a lawyer 's claim that they had mishandled the arrest of a 12-year-old boy who was released and eliminated from the inquiry last Wednesday . |
| 11 | The canteen at TV London was largely deserted at half past ten the next morning when Dexter and Blanche sat down at a table in the corner of the self-service section . |
| 12 | DOZENS of rock fans were arrested when fights broke out at a Guns N' Roses US concert . |
| 13 | The profits averaged out at a quarter of a million pounds per partner . |
| 14 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
| 15 | A SPECIAL constable was shot dead at point-blank range and his colleague gunned down at a routine police check , an Old Bailey court heard yesterday . |
| 16 | This year his television career set off at a run with Aah Sean , a one hour documentary which offered a cock-eyed perspective on his Dublin youth . |
| 17 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 18 | The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings , leading onto the moor itself . |
| 19 | Across the road a bus drew up at a stop . |
| 20 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 21 | The barge tied up at a quay . |
| 22 | When talks broke down at a Leeds hotel last week , Wilkinson told both players to go home and think over his offer , but Andersson 's later outburst left the Leeds manager fuming . |
| 23 | Mr Yeltsin , in a declaration read out at a news conference by the foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , described the association of former Soviet republics as amorphous and ‘ unable to fulfil the hopes invested in it ’ . |
| 24 | She caught the reins or bridle in her hands , and there hung suspended for a second as Anmer rushed on at a speed of over thirty miles an hour . |
| 25 | THE playwright Harold Pinter was among guests who fled in night clothes when fire broke out at a Brighton hotel yesterday . |
| 26 | A fire brigade spokesman said the fire broke out at a house in The Bank at 9.30am . |
| 27 | A total of 43 people died on Jan. 14 , most of them from toxic cyanide fumes , after a fire broke out at a Zaragoza nightclub . |
| 28 | During April 1856 , after a period when , it seems , no head dresser was overseeing , his son John took over at a rate of about £5 : 4s. : 0d. , which figure was apparently dependent upon the weather . |
| 29 | Alice looked in at a scene of comfort . |
| 30 | If wide coverage is sought ( eg for a new Do-it-Yourself product or a new consumer banking service ) , then a television advertisement put out at a peak viewing time would be the most effective . |