Example sentences of "and [verb] at [adj] speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 2 | I picture in my mind the womb , small and malleable as the heart muscle , expanding and contracting at ludicrous speed . |
| 3 | Looking back , he saw that the gang were pounding his fallen friend with lumps of concrete so he decided to help by jumping into his car and driving at full speed towards them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Place 1.5 ml of overnight bacterial culture into a 1.5 ml tube and centrifuge at top speed for 10 seconds . |
| 6 | He was breathless and moving at high speed , but there was nothing agitated or uncontrolled about him . |
| 7 | He believes that there seems to be extra-sensory perception ( ESP ) between spiders who spin similar webs from birth , and flocks of starlings that twist and turn at great speed without colliding . |
| 8 | The dowel is gripped in a drill , and run at low speed , with a little pressure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 11 | All around her , the flower-market was bustling with life as traders seemingly managed to clinch three deals simultaneously , talking and haggling at double speed . |
| 12 | New skills and awarenesses — of assessment , management , counselling , computing , pedagogy and the rest — are being defined and promulgated at high speed . |
| 13 | Other rules while in the Gulf were , as far as possible , to move only at night , to observe rigid radio silence and to travel at maximum speed . |