Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 2 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 3 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 4 | The windows of the car were open and they hummed along at a steady cruising speed meeting very little traffic . |
| 5 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 6 | Caroline and the rest of the group , who were raising funds for the BBC 's annual children in Need appeal , stopped off at a Turkish restaurant during their tour of four restaurants in Aberdeen . |
| 7 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 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 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 10 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sean gathered up the reins and drove off at a smart pace . |
| 13 | Socialist Sweden came out at a hefty $27.10 . |
| 14 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 15 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 16 | She was sitting down by the gate , one hand on her neck , her head canted over at a fierce angle . |
| 17 | When he turned off at a small junction taking a no-through road , she stopped and watched him out of sight . |
| 18 | The Mad one turned up at a recent New York gig of fabulous , trendy , baggy-type band with organ , THE CHARLATANS ( UK ) . |
| 19 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 20 | ONLY four people turned up at a public meeting in Machynlleth to finalise arrangements for the town 's summer play scheme for local schoolchildren . |
| 21 | Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced |
| 22 | He also stocked up at a local health shop with various things he could nibble discreetly en route . |
| 23 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 24 | Between the many breaks in the cloud the rays of a thin evening sun shafted down at an acute angle to spotlight the pastoral scene . |
| 25 | A head flew off at a sideways flick of Ewan 's sword . |
| 26 | Suddenly , he gave a yell , raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough . |
| 27 | A second night jar started up at a few yards distant . |
| 28 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 29 | ANGRY Aston Villa boss Ron Atkinson yesterday hit out at a Premier League fixture glut that threatens to rebound on England . |
| 30 | From then onwards the transformation of the English landscape , or of a considerable part of it , went on at a revolutionary pace . |