Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear . |
| 2 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 3 | Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north . |
| 4 | The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 5 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 6 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 7 | In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt . |
| 8 | We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed . |
| 9 | Even Isay unbent a little , and grinned at a raven-haired wench when she made a lewd pluck at his staff . |
| 10 | He cried out and grabbed at a nearby wall to steady himself . |
| 11 | The question of the balance of power will be debated and decided at a political level . |
| 12 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 13 | Agrippa stopped and looked at a lonely bird shrieking above us as if it was a devil let loose to wander this lonely wilderness . |
| 14 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 15 | At about ten to nine I tethered the bike to a lamp-post and proceeded at a leisurely pace on foot to the Parsons ' . |
| 16 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
| 17 | In his room he unpacked the little portable typewriter that had once been Jenny 's and stared at a blank paper until his embarrassment had faded . |
| 18 | Performance information can be viewed in real time or collected and archived at a single location to be used later for systems and capacity planning . |
| 19 | Capacity to learn about associations in the world is clearly of great value in a variable environment and appeared at an early stage in animal evolution . |
| 20 | Meetings between the two men lasted into Saturday night and continued at a religious service on Sunday . |
| 21 | The bartender , squat and ugly with one white eye , wore an apron and soiled shirt and sat at a high stool reading a newspaper . |
| 22 | She was apparently close to marriage on two occasions , but withdrew at a late stage . |