Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear . |
| 2 | For the sake of clarity , one possible solution is to provide that the SSAPs to be used are those that applied at a specified date even if changed subsequently between exchange and completion . |
| 3 | But all that changed at a phenomenal pace . |
| 4 | Their movements were deliberate and careful and Wycliffe had the impression of figures in slow motion , indeed of a whole existence that proceeded at a slower pace , muted , subdued , and infinitely depressing . |
| 5 | Idly she unravelled the muddle of paths , wandering past low , stunted railings , and dwarf ‘ Keep off the grass ’ signs sprouting from the balding turf ; past desolate putting greens ; past tightly-shuttered refreshment kiosks ; past the narrow lanes marked ‘ Men ’ and Women' that commenced at a modest distance from each other and wound through dark shrubbery to merge in a single , dripping tomb , divided by a wall . |
| 6 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 7 | Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north . |
| 8 | The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 9 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 10 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 11 | We stayed for three days , and then we took the night boat to Belgium , and arrived at a tall , fine school building in the centre of Brussels . |
| 12 | In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt . |
| 13 | By the early 1970s the CNAA had established and reviewed policies ; framed a pattern of degrees and made the revisions which resulted , for example , in the adoption of the degree and degree with honours , branching from a common foundation , to replace the essentially two-track ordinary and honours structure ; and arrived at a broad and growing diversity of subject areas to validate , with a potential to make a major contribution in additional areas . |
| 14 | We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed . |
| 15 | Even Isay unbent a little , and grinned at a raven-haired wench when she made a lewd pluck at his staff . |
| 16 | He cried out and grabbed at a nearby wall to steady himself . |
| 17 | The question of the balance of power will be debated and decided at a political level . |
| 18 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 19 | They 'd been and looked at a few and there , |
| 20 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 21 | Agrippa stopped and looked at a lonely bird shrieking above us as if it was a devil let loose to wander this lonely wilderness . |
| 22 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 23 | At about ten to nine I tethered the bike to a lamp-post and proceeded at a leisurely pace on foot to the Parsons ' . |
| 24 | In his room he unpacked the little portable typewriter that had once been Jenny 's and stared at a blank paper until his embarrassment had faded . |
| 25 | Performance information can be viewed in real time or collected and archived at a single location to be used later for systems and capacity planning . |
| 26 | Meetings between the two men lasted into Saturday night and continued at a religious service on Sunday . |
| 27 | The bartender , squat and ugly with one white eye , wore an apron and soiled shirt and sat at a high stool reading a newspaper . |
| 28 | The concierge shrugged , opened the map and pointed at a large open space to the north of the city . |
| 29 | She was apparently close to marriage on two occasions , but withdrew at a late stage . |