Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 2 | The Himalayas , whose rise began maybe 50 million years ago , are still climbing heavenwards at an average rate of seven millimetres per year , double the speed of their advance ten million years ago , though such rates are by no means constant . |
| 3 | Here she found Mrs Geary , kindly smoothing Twomey 's hair with her hand , while he boned away at an elegant shoe . |
| 4 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 5 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 6 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 7 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 8 | Grant found himself looking up at an attractive dark haired nurse . |
| 9 | They abound now at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 10 | The two judgment tasks were practised twice on the roads preceding the actual test route , once when turning left at a large roundabout and once when turning right at an unsignalized T-junction . |
| 11 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 12 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 13 | The paper had been relaunched by Maurice Kinn , a successful London agent and promoter who , by turning up at an agreed location on the stroke of noon with £1,000 pounds of borrowed cash in hand , acquired the title and promptly added the New . |
| 14 | Reforming legislation was to be drawn up at an extraordinary PCT congress in 1991 . |
| 15 | Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate . |
| 16 | Sophie saw him look anxiously at an upper window as he acknowledged the introduction , then he said ‘ We have to speak very quietly as our little girl is asleep and she does n't know that Sandy is ill . ’ |
| 17 | Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate . |
| 18 | Bent over at an ungainly angle , trying to wrench the thing free , Bernice was acutely conscious of the picture that she must be making . |
| 19 | The change over the past 2,700 years means days have been getting longer at an average rate of 1.7 milliseconds per 100 years . |
| 20 | wearing away at an interior shore : |
| 21 | But their efforts were brushed aside at an angry meeting of Durham County Council , which approved the social services committee 's decision to close the homes . |
| 22 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 23 | We knew we were moving abroad at an interesting time in world history , but we did n't realize we 'd get to watch the apocalypse from here . |
| 24 | At the entrance , just near the gatehouse door , Cranston stopped and knocked hard at an iron-studded door . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Even in the USA , where a radical process of resettlement got underway at an early stage , most reported episodes of mental illness are still treated at these institutions . |
| 27 | Through the provision of contracts on admission , and ongoing reviews of each resident 's career in the Home , difficulties might be ironed out at an early stage . |
| 28 | The snags can be ironed out at an early stage . |
| 29 | Noses to the ground , the dogs were coming on at an fast , distance-consuming lope . |
| 30 | The management contractor , by being brought in at an early stage , will become involved in the design process in co-operation with the client 's designer . |