Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] at [adj] speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planning permission was sought and granted at breakneck speed and the foundations were already being excavated for twenty-four executive-type four to five bedroom ‘ dwelling units ’ with two garages apiece but no gardens . |
| 2 | The dowel is gripped in a drill , and run at low speed , with a little pressure . |
| 3 | But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat . |
| 4 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 5 | New skills and awarenesses — of assessment , management , counselling , computing , pedagogy and the rest — are being defined and promulgated at high speed . |