Example sentences of "speed [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , what was billed as a spectacular display of gunpowder , fire , balloons and art … featuring Halley 's comet speeding through the cosmos . |
| 2 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
| 3 | Before long we were speeding through the night towards Joyce 's Country , County Galway . |
| 4 | While this was being organised , the sheriff 's car , Springfield at the wheel , was speeding through the night towards Rockford and beyond , heading for Dawson County Hospital . |
| 5 | Time and again the images have a distilled beauty : the simple two-shot before the battle in which Krishna explains to the warrior Arjuna that ‘ Victory and defeat , pleasure and pain are all the same ’ , the sight of the nagaswaram ( the shawm-like musical instruments ) echoing their peals to the skies , Karna 's golden lance speeding through the air on its momentous flight to pierce the green-bellied Ghatotkatcha . |
| 6 | But then , with a sudden movement , his hand went back and something went speeding through the air . |
| 7 | I was speeding through the rage barrier . |
| 8 | They also reduce land loss , since it is estimated that channels with 50 per cent tree and shrub cover on both banks require only approximately half the width for a given volume of bankfull flood-water speeding through the channel , compared to treeless brooks which erode out into the adjacent fields . |
| 9 | In the meantime , motorists caught speeding through the contraflow can expect to receive a court summons in the post . |
| 10 | Agnes Winkowski turned from the frightened child clinging on to the side of her hand-cart and looked back to watch two men of the law speeding after the woman . |
| 11 | No 86247 ( named Abraham Darby in 1981 ) speeds through the Lune Gorge with an up ‘ Electric scot ’ service on 22 March 1980 . |
| 12 | This may be called the " ambulance effect " because its most familiar manifestation is the sudden drop in pitch of an ambulance 's siren as it speeds past the listener . |
| 13 | No one will notice the gap on the screen as one frame speeds past the projector bulb , across the splice , to the next frame . |
| 14 | A twin-hulled powerboat speeds along the Mersey during a previous New Brighton championship event |
| 15 | By altering average road speeds in the model , to reflect the effect of road network improvements , changes in the transport and total distribution costs can be observed . |
| 16 | Will my cover-drive still leave the off-side fielders rooted helplessly to the ground as the ball speeds to the boundary ? |
| 17 | These are the east-west wind speeds at the cloud tops . |
| 18 | I used to spend all my time in these shops watching the cup speeding along the rail but never seeming to go to the wrong station . |
| 19 | After waking the older girl , her mother went back into the house to finish her coffee , and almost immediately heard first one , then several other cars go speeding up the lane past the door . |
| 20 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 21 | Speeding in the town is being monitored to see if traffic slowing measures are needed . |
| 22 | About 1,200 motorists were also stopped for speeding in the crackdown . |
| 23 | The court heard that PC Whitehouse had been questioning the driver of another red Ford car when the Sierra came speeding round the corner . |
| 24 | Another prosecution witness , David Moss , was walking along Akers Way , when , he said , he saw 2 cars speeding down the road . |
| 25 | ‘ Good heavens ! ’ she breathed , watching one figure speeding over the snow at a break-neck pace , yet seemingly in effortless control . |
| 26 | How can you tell when a motorcyclist has been having fun speeding on the motorway ? |
| 27 | know of her , see if she was speeding on the pavement |
| 28 | Two fences later , as the runners swerved left over the Canal Turn , he had sped to the front and was inexorably increasing his advantage and turning the Grand National into a glorious exhibition round . |
| 29 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 30 | With a roar , the Greater Daemon sped through the night to find its prey . |