Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune — and it never ends .
2 Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams .
3 He would smile and move off at a steady pace , his friends with him .
4 Blackbirds , sparrows , robins , and other birds whose names Vic does n't know , skip and hop about at a discreet distance from the magpies .
5 As with all hill climbing , a BM may end up at a local minimum .
6 That way , unless I 've really laid it on thick , I can get along at a cracking pace .
7 Or , or other benefits that would actually kick in at a certain point , er , of death , I mean obviously this would actually help at erm , diagnosis , and you 're writing into this , sort of to cover all of the things that we 're talking about , and they get that , and then they continue to live , the rest of your plans are all then thrown out are n't they , because you 've got all those things that you 've put into place for death , sorted out in the years before .
8 These white athletes under such circumstances may start off at a psychological disadvantage .
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