Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 2 | There was a tongue of flame and Asa pulled back the column and levelled out at two thousand feet . |
| 3 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 4 | PS Taped the English Soccer on ‘ Sports CHannel Ohio ’ last night and got up at 6:15 to watch the highlights before going to work . |
| 5 | And got up at four . |
| 6 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 7 | John stood 6ft tall and weighed in at 13½ stone , so he was ideally equipped for his onerous responsibilities although , like many big men , he was a quiet and serious fellow — a Sunday School teacher who frequently declined to play on Good Fridays or Christmas Day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then they marked half the webs with artificial stabilimenta and came back at two-hourly intervals to check on the longevity of the webs . |
| 13 | The chain was faulty , and came off at regular intervals . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This seems an effort to fit a cult-statue into a building with a sacrificial pit ; and though it was in profile that one saw these statues as one came in or went out , if one looked up as one passed under the beam which hid them , one saw them again , carved in very low relief on its underside , standing frontal and looking down at one : altogether an astonishing conception . |
| 16 | Over a period of time circuit boards and chips creep out of their sockets as different components cool and heat up at different rates . |
| 17 | The stable , dry pedal boats can be picked up and dropped off at any of 5 moorings in the heart of the City . |
| 18 | We left Clove Lodge at six o'clock in the morning and arrived back at four o'clock the following morning . |
| 19 | As you read through a book or long article , pause after each chapter or section and look back at any notes you have taken . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now three of her fingers were broken and stuck out at strange angles . |
| 22 | When I , when it came to exam time , I used to work until midnight , have three hours sleep and get up at three in the morning to carry on revising er because I was n't brilliant and I could n't remember everything and it was hard work . |
| 23 | Nor had they gone far before she was forced to stand still and stare up at tall tree-ferns , their gracefully curving fronds sheltering the path like a row of lofty umbrellas . |
| 24 | Using clients referred from across the city , they were assigned to either ICT or GCT and followed up at one , two , three , and six months . |
| 25 | Which talks about de organizational development plans , team development plans , personal development plans , and signed off at each |
| 26 | So she might be better he might be better going with Gill , I 'll tell him tonight erm she 's going over there at two and coming back at three thirty and she wanted Lee to go , like , at three thirty and she 'd bring him back at half past eight at night . |
| 27 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 28 | Mr E , however , countered each example with either ‘ it wo n't work with Dave ’ or ‘ I 've tried all this ’ , and switched off at any good idea offered , unable to listen , making himself , like Dave , the only one in the group so different and obstructive . |
| 29 | She tossed her plait over her shoulder and looked round at all the mess . |
| 30 | Adam opened his eyes and looked up at Curly Top . |