Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun pl] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my great surprise , I found that the black hole seemed to emit particles at a steady rate . |
| 2 | Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph . |
| 3 | His assistant should have directed a scene after lunch but the director returned to find things at a stand-still . |
| 4 | Then in June he began to write cheques at a ‘ fast and furious pace ’ . |
| 5 | There is the folklore assertion that when an experienced warrener went to buy ferrets at a market his first action on inspecting them was to insert his hand in a cage containing a number of the animals . |