Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at high " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 2 | Reactions are carried out at high pressure and temperature and the processes involve large scale filtration , drying , milling and packing . |
| 3 | My map-reading skill comes from many years using the OS ‘ 1 inch = 1 mile ’ maps in club , national and international motor rallies , where you are bouncing along at high speed , often at night , in poor conditions . |
| 4 | The running tunnels are connected to the service tunnel by cross passages every 375m , and to each other by piston ducts every 250m to reduce the aerodynamic resistance of trains passing through at high speed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 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 | This will give the rotor an imbalance , which is noticed particularly at high speed . |
| 9 | Some are quite exotic , requiring to be operated continuously at high temperatures . |
| 10 | such as the fine solder work required for gold filigree and granulation , can not be seen even at high magnification . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 13 | If they recognise the boat as ‘ friendly ’ and if it is n't rushing around at high speed , they will allow you to get close enough to take photographs . |
| 14 | This means that day length increases faster at high latitudes , and that primary production is enhanced compared to areas further south . |
| 15 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 16 | What this all boils down to is that , if you make a turn to the left while flying forwards at high speed with clockwise blade rotation , you will probably need to apply full left tail rotor . |
| 17 | Then I saw Barak 's car being driven away at high speed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It said that despite being aware of Gooch coming up at high speed behind him , Gallagher pulled out into his path . |
| 20 | He appeared to be asleep but when he saw officers he took off at high speed . |
| 21 | However , stability demands that the gain falls off at high frequency ( see next section ) . |
| 22 | Being spun round at high speed confuses the senses . |
| 23 | Following well-rehearsed dismounting drills , the riflemen poured out of the Warriors and in next to no time were providing their own fire support as the Warriors reversed away at high speed to give covering fire from positions where they would be less vulnerable to short-range anti-tank weapons . |
| 24 | The damage cost curve is shown starting at some low value at a small or zero concentration — and increasing rapidly at high concentrations . |
| 25 | Both types work on the principle of swelling up at high temperatures to produce a ‘ charred ’ foam coating which so insulates and protects the member from heat that the temperature of the metal remains well below that of the fire . |
| 26 | Digital mobiles witter noisily at high frequencies . |
| 27 | That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide . |
| 28 | When the adventurers are searching the attic , the clock suddenly chimes very loudly ; the single hand begins whizzing round at high speed , and the clock chimes a random hour each round . |
| 29 | The car made a U-turn and headed back at high speeds . |
| 30 | Penned in by the subliminal surrealism on the screens , knocked out of the way by the mobile cartoon tableaux that slice aggressively through the audience ( mini-stages dragged around at high speed ) , people do n't quite know where to look or go next . |