Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [adj] speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
| 2 | Western rider Bob Mayhew showed just how unimportant reins need be , producing a range of movements , including rein back , leg yielding , sliding stops and ‘ spins ’ ( a never ending pirouette performed at alarming speed ) with virtually no rein contact , and using body and leg aids alone . |
| 3 | The whirring sound of a tape rewinding at high speed confirmed her guess . |
| 4 | Faintly , above the moaning of the wind , they heard a cracked wheezing , the unskilled sequence of chords of a sea-shanty played at half speed . |
| 5 | From then on , anything that loiters in front of the entrance runs a risk of being knocked flying by the owner of the den exiting at high speed . |
| 6 | Q. — A fire-engine driven at full speed to a fire knocks down and kills somebody . |
| 7 | Dawn 's life was saved because two trained paramedics , travelling in the opposite direction in their private ambulance , noticed the sports car travelling at high speed , then realized it had crashed , and turned round to offer help at the scene . |
| 8 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 9 | It is a true figure eight circuit flown at slow speed in front of the pilot ( Fig.7.6 ) and forms one of the compulsory manoeuvres flown in FAI contests . |
| 10 | Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor . |
| 11 | The problem was not evading capture — it would take a very alert human even to see a nome running at full speed , let alone catch one — but simply avoiding being trodden on by accident . |
| 12 | Nicola Jones , 15 , was riding nine-year-old Ballyveamore along a country road at Bryniau , Dyserth , when she saw a blue Ford Transit approaching at high speed . |
| 13 | For a few brief moments Carnelian 's face might have been that of a Polymorphine shape-shifter viewed at fast-forward speed passing through absurdly accelerated transformations . |
| 14 | Originally it was thought to give better protection to the crew ejecting at high speed and provide them with a ‘ shirt-sleeve ’ environment . |
| 15 | The Recorder told Mulraney : ‘ 'You have a compulsive urge to drive at excessive speed . ’ |
| 16 | The game continues at great speed . |
| 17 | Scrambling along the ground at 4 metres per second , a quail functions at a miserable 7 per cent fuel efficiency , Heglund found , while a man running at that speed achieves a 73 per cent ratio of fuel used in running to energy generated from food and oxygen . |
| 18 | All of these objectives were enshrined in a document written at great speed within six months of the Japanese surrender , and enacted in the following year , 1947 . |
| 19 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
| 20 | Change or omission of sounds in language spoken at conversational speed . |