Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] at an [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pointing , at best , some sixty degrees off the wind , and drifting downwind at an alarming rate , we made little or no progress during the next three days . |
| 2 | At the entrance , just near the gatehouse door , Cranston stopped and knocked hard at an iron-studded door . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Suddenly , he gave a yell , raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough . |
| 5 | Essex were , for a time , in some trouble after Munton had claimed two wickets in as many balls but Gooch , still snuffling after his touch of ‘ flu and coming in at an unaccustomed No 5 position , thwarted the hat-trick ball . |
| 6 | All too soon , the finest rocky clough in the Dark Peak levels out at around the 1500 feet contour and falls back at an easy angle towards Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow Head . |