Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a tongue of flame and Asa pulled back the column and levelled out at two thousand feet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And got up at four . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then they marked half the webs with artificial stabilimenta and came back at two-hourly intervals to check on the longevity of the webs . |
| 10 | The chain was faulty , and came off at regular intervals . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The stable , dry pedal boats can be picked up and dropped off at any of 5 moorings in the heart of the City . |
| 13 | We left Clove Lodge at six o'clock in the morning and arrived back at four o'clock the following morning . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now three of her fingers were broken and stuck out at strange angles . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Which talks about de organizational development plans , team development plans , personal development plans , and signed off at each |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She tossed her plait over her shoulder and looked round at all the mess . |
| 20 | Adam opened his eyes and looked up at Curly Top . |
| 21 | Nooty wandered miserably away from the group and looked down at one of the rails . |
| 22 | Agassiz drew diagrams of the relative flourishing of different families of fish through past time , which showed gradual appearance and extinction — but he must have believed that species came into being and died out at definite times . |
| 23 | I was counting these pages last night and gave up at forty-two . |
| 24 | The night before the wedding , they went out to all their favourite haunts — 1997 , Rick 's Café , the Go-Down — and ended up at two in the morning getting out of a taxi in Wan Chai , the neon blazing in the hot night , dark-eyed Chinese girls in brightly lit doorways , American sailors talking to them while people slept on the pavements and steaming noodles were served at three dollars a bowl at the poor-man 's lean-to restaurant . |
| 25 | Hereford 's away day to the seaside started promisingly , but they missed their chances and ended up at all at sea . |
| 26 | He birdied 14 and chipped in at 15 , and so I thought if he can birdie 16 he might shoot 69 . |