Example sentences of "[vb past] at full [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 2 | And the occasion will be given more spice by the fact that Dorahy played at full back and stand off during a spell at the Boulevard . |
| 3 | They came at full speed , the leading man aiming to Sharpe 's left , the other pulling to his right . |
| 4 | She vanished at full tilt towards the kitchen-garden and the orchards . |
| 5 | The soldiers jogged at full speed , M-29s jiggling in their arms . |
| 6 | She pressed a button and one of the hit songs of the season emerged at full volume , the tough , shallow lyrics gloatingly declaimed by a star of the mid-sixties who had traded in her artless looks and girlish lispings for a street-wise manner and a voice laden with designer cynicism . |
| 7 | He knew that he always operated at full efficiency when driven by anger ; from now on , he was suddenly sure , he was in control of this bloody conference . |
| 8 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 9 | It is said that as he left , blood flowed from the nostrils of the dead king , a fact which some took as a sign since the body of a murdered man will bleed in the presence of his murderer ; but Henry 's death was the outcome of a life lived at full tilt . |
| 10 | He punched a volley which almost drove Chang into the court surrounds , yet the American not only reached it but responded at full stretch with a perfect lob ; quick-witted as well as fleet-footed play . |