Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
| 2 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 3 | Taxi driver Peter Simpson said that two cars raced past him at high speed . |
| 4 | As a result , he was taken completely by surprise when twelve stone of lean muscle powered into him at snake-like speed and wrenched the gun aside , the shot slamming into a very surprised Froebe , who staggered back , the impact of his body cracking one of the windows . |
| 5 | But the long smelly trails snaking along the branches and renewed repeatedly every night , also mark out the main highways through the tree so that , if necessary , the bush babies can scamper along them at considerable speed in the pitch blackness . |
| 6 | She felt her feet trailing through the weeds that grew at the side of the track , nettles and thistles tearing her skin as she was dragged through them at high speed . |
| 7 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 8 | He shot after him at high speed . |