Example sentences of "[vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting and laughing , the family disembarked at a broken-down council estate covered in rubbish . |
| 2 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 3 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
| 4 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 5 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
| 6 | Prices rose at an annual rate of 4% last month , up from 3.8% in April and their quickest pace of increase since March last year . |
| 7 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 8 | TWO Argentinian airmen who fought in the Falklands died yesterday when their plane crashed at a British airport . |
| 9 | I peered at a few of them , identifying Filmer and Daffodil 's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones , the Lorrimores ' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay , and the Youngs ' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock . |
| 10 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 11 | Smiling , she wondered whether he ever moved at a normal pace . |
| 12 | It was impossible to hurry but they moved at a steady pace , pausing seldom . |
| 13 | One behind the other , Grant leading , they moved at a fast walk . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 15 | At a little after one of the sunny afternoon clock they stopped at a vast motorway services area thingy . |
| 16 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
| 17 | Six hours into the journey , and several thousand feet higher , we stopped at a small village to quench our thirst and refuel the jeep from rusty milk-cans . |
| 18 | He stopped at a small , quiet pub and bought a meal , then went on again . |
| 19 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 20 | On her way , out of shame that she would mess up the arrangements , she stopped at a small shop and got some fresh rolls and ham , some butter and some tins of Smithwicks bitter . |
| 21 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 22 | Some while later they stopped at a large setting loom , manned by five men ‘ beating up ’ , as Natasha explained , the chenille fur . |
| 23 | They stopped at a red light . |
| 24 | They stopped at a red light . |
| 25 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
| 26 | Driving back from a game with fellow coloureds , he stopped at a white sports ground to watch a match played by members of the SACU . |
| 27 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 28 | He stopped at a little roadside inn and found inside an old woman at work with a spinning wheel , like ‘ a dark silhouette out of a fairy tale ’ , and beyond her , through the window , the clear sky and a path through the delicate green , and geese pecking in the grass . |
| 29 | In the hills above the ruins of Capernaum near the Mount of Beatitudes we stopped at a natural grassy amphitheatre which could easily seat 10,000 . |
| 30 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |