Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 2 | Mr Michael Poynor , the adjudicator , commended director Harry Foy for an energetic production which kept the action moving along at a fast pace . |
| 3 | The groundswell in ‘ Chopin ’ is more urgent than usual , more truly agitato , the final march takes off at a cracking pace , and earlier Cortot , in common with Rachmaninov , includes ‘ Sphinxes ’ , a witty addition and an amusingly dour presence among the clowns and dreamers of Schumann 's masked ball . |
| 4 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 5 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 6 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | A second night jar started up at a few yards distant . |
| 8 | Young Ian Fletcher scored two touchdowns from full-back , and Dave McKee , Stuart Munro and Trevor Carmichael had the others , as West kept the scoreboard ticking over at a steady rate throughout the match . |
| 9 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 10 | The scale length of the Tribute checks out at a Fender-like 25½ inches . |
| 11 | She was sitting down by the gate , one hand on her neck , her head canted over at a fierce angle . |
| 12 | A head flew off at a sideways flick of Ewan 's sword . |
| 13 | He had a beard and his forehead sloped back at a steep angle . |
| 14 | The stream bed below is normally dry as the water percolates through at a lower level . |
| 15 | And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour … |
| 16 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |
| 17 | The service block comes off at a right angle at the back and forms a sort of court where you arrive . |
| 18 | Christabel 's tombstone leaned over at a slight angle . |
| 19 | As a stake in society comes in at a higher cost , the old certainties begin to wither . |
| 20 | The story rips along at a cracking pace instead of suspensefully loitering , yet it somehow lacks the frisson of Alien in its businesslike efficiency . |
| 21 | If you want information to go out at a specific time , time it very carefully , and just bung it out , as it were , and , and reckon it 's there at that stage . |
| 22 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 23 | As caries sets in at a weak point in the tooth 's enamel and spreads to rot the whole tooth , so an appeal to the crown could trigger the decay of local autonomy . |
| 24 | The entry level 386SX with 2MB RAM comes in at a mere £499 . |
| 25 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 26 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 27 | You 're talking about er three thirty mil going out at a premium price , erm your one litre at an economy price and your two litre back at a premium price . |
| 28 | ‘ If one averages this out at around £41 per soldier per week for 1,000 troops the annual cost works out at a mere £2.1m — a long way short of the £365m claimed for propaganda purposes . ’ |
| 29 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 30 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |