Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 2 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 3 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ I turn round at a leaning gate post where the gate is permanently open , if somewhat askew . |
| 5 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 6 | I fuel up at a wee petrol station just before the A9 and phone Fettes while the tank 's filling . |
| 7 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 8 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 9 | You plot along at a steady crawl wondering if you 'll ever reach that far-off doorway , let go of the joystick as soon as you get there , then promptly take another pace ! |
| 10 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm a Bank Assistant ’ , was the first thing she said when she stood up at a recent IBOA meeting . |
| 12 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 13 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 14 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 15 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 16 | The windows of the car were open and they hummed along at a steady cruising speed meeting very little traffic . |
| 17 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 18 | Heads down , they set off at a fast trot which lasted until Loretta twisted her ankle . |
| 19 | They sat down at a low table in the corner , under a poster for the Campus Crèche and facing posters for the Pregnancy Advisory Service — ‘ A woman has a right to decide about her own body . |
| 20 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 21 | When he turned off at a small junction taking a no-through road , she stopped and watched him out of sight . |
| 22 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 23 | He looked around at a sudden grinding noise , and a voice like a carving knife cutting through silk said , ‘ This is very undignified . ’ |
| 24 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 25 | He marched off at a brisk pace , leading his party of fifty or so , including two in bath-chairs intent on taking the tour , come hell or high water , the latter being most probable . |
| 26 | The scarf was simply to protect her hair-do in that open vehicle as it bowled along at a business-like sixty kilometres per hour and , with the sunglasses , conferred upon her a touch of the Jackie Kennedy chic to which she was innocent enough to aspire . |
| 27 | On something of an Italo tip , it thunders along at a fair old rate , brings synth nostalgia to the fore and is an all-round bumpalong winner . |
| 28 | He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo . |
| 29 | He set off at a brisk walk . |
| 30 | He set off at a fast lope , leaving her amazed that he still had enough energy to move so quickly , but also puzzled . |