Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When he turned off at a small junction taking a no-through road , she stopped and watched him out of sight . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He looked around at a sudden grinding noise , and a voice like a carving knife cutting through silk said , ‘ This is very undignified . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo . |
| 8 | He set off at a brisk walk . |
| 9 | He set off at a fast lope , leaving her amazed that he still had enough energy to move so quickly , but also puzzled . |