Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In clefts which acted as fresh water drainage channels , only 27% hatched while in situations that dried out at low water , hatching success varied between 0% at mean tide level to 57% at mean low water neaps . |
| 2 | She was in the kitchen area now , divided from the rest of the downstairs by a row of cupboards that ran out at waist-height halfway across the room . |
| 3 | A turnstone in tortoiseshell plumage flicked over stones and pecked smartly at exposed food items . |
| 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 | Then they marked half the webs with artificial stabilimenta and came back at two-hourly intervals to check on the longevity of the webs . |
| 10 | The chain was faulty , and came off at regular intervals . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Two Ryder Cup matches were won outright , another halved ; the Curtis Cup team went to Hutchinson , Kansas in 1986 and won , and defended successfully at Royal St George 's , while in August of this year the Walker Cup team , quite improbably , went to Atlanta and won the Walker Cup . |
| 13 | More complicated patterns for the arm involve holding it straight and turned outwards at certain angles , where the physiotherapist has placed the arm , and then learning to move the arm between two positions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now three of her fingers were broken and stuck out at strange angles . |
| 16 | Dorothea Gilberd edged away from the parents to whom she had been uttering words of reassurance about their little Philip 's future and glided quite at random in the direction of Tom Tedder . |
| 17 | Adam opened his eyes and looked up at Curly Top . |
| 18 | Agassiz drew diagrams of the relative flourishing of different families of fish through past time , which showed gradual appearance and extinction — but he must have believed that species came into being and died out at definite times . |