Example sentences of "[vb past] at high " in BNC.
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| 1 | They introduced ad hoc postulates , such as proposing that objects got shorter when they moved at high speeds . |
| 2 | Unlike the stag , the tape-recorder did not get tired and when the tape-recorder roared at high rate , the stag roared less . |
| 3 | The announcement of the measures comes more than three months after publication of the Holman report , ordered following last August 's event , when several racing boats drove at high speed in fog-shrouded Torbay — two hitting a holiday beach . |
| 4 | Bull and his colleague , Detective Constable Tim Wills , drove at high speed towards north Wales . |
| 5 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 6 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 7 | All of those who had travelled through the warp to Karka 's Sun and returned alive crowded the carved benches ; and Lord Pugh partook too — enthroned at high table on a dais in front of the enamelled rood-screen — even though the pink piscine flesh was less than ashes in his mouth . |
| 8 | Penzance has fine views of St Michael 's Mount , a fairytale castle built on an island reached at high tide by boat and at low tide by a causeway , which is owned by the National Trust . |
| 9 | I 've got a calendar from the day I start shooting , and I start crossing off the days the way I did at high school , waiting for summer vacation to begin . ’ |
| 10 | Most military personnel were members of the CPSU or Komsomol , and military figures appeared at high levels in party organizations . |
| 11 | Scenes using the ships were then animated and shot at high resolution on to 35mm film . |
| 12 | This suspension was disrupted ultrasonically by six , 5 second bursts using an ultrasonicator ( MSE ) , then centrifuged at high speed for five minutes , thus allowing the intracellular drug content to be measured . |
| 13 | Then there are the Flume Rides ; long , twisty fibreglass tunnels , down which one slid at high speed , ending in a deep pool at the bottom . |
| 14 | She remembered how the table around which they sat at High Tea , was covered with a sheet of speckled grey lino which had a strange stickiness . |
| 15 | As a particularly honoured guest , Eliot sat at High Table , whereas others like myself were placed among the students or ‘ novices ’ , and I preferred it that way . |
| 16 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 17 | BRENDA LEE was only 15 when Sweet Nothings charted number four in 1960 , but the little girl from Lithonia , Georgia , sensibly stayed at high school for another three years before taking up show business full-time . |