Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A turnstone in tortoiseshell plumage flicked over stones and pecked smartly at exposed food items . |
| 2 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 3 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 4 | In return , citizens are entitled to expect high-quality services which are responsive to their needs and provided efficiently at reasonable cost . |
| 5 | An erratic Lebanese with a wife and family in Beirut and a Dutch mistress in Nicosia , he wore jeans and cowboy boots and drove around at high speed in a Chevy 4 × 4 with expired Texas licence plates . |
| 6 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 7 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 8 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 9 | Birds ' songs often sound varied and melodious to us , but if they are recorded and played back at slow speed , they are found to have vastly more detail than we realise . |
| 10 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 11 | She watched him whip his horse and drive away at breakneck speed . |
| 12 | TO USE : Unwrap and thaw overnight at cool room temperature . |
| 13 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 14 | Adam opened his eyes and looked up at Curly Top . |
| 15 | The advanced technology of Ticene means that any grease splashes which land on the inside of the oven , spread themselves over a large area and burn away at normal cooking temperatures . |
| 16 | The whole weary process started again in Auckland in July and continues today at Central Park where Great Britain meet New Zealand in the third British Coal Test . |
| 17 | Although it was barely daylight , they were already twittering and tweeting away at full pelt . |
| 18 | the name of the game is to race over the mountains … you can either go flat out for the fastest time … or take a treasure hunt sort of trail where you find and check in at remote control points … the route you find yourself … |