Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 2 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 3 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 4 | It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me . |
| 5 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 6 | ‘ I get up at a quarter-to-five most mornings . |
| 7 | in the first division its Oxford against Millwall at the Manor … it 's only four weeks since they fought out at a two all draw at the Den … |
| 8 | I do n't exclude myself from myself , but I I I 'd give him a nine and I I 'd come in at a seven I think . |
| 9 | With your neck if it come out at a forty that 'll be fine wo n't it ? |