Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 2 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 3 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 4 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 5 | Further , a widespread parish response to famine-level prices was to purchase supplies of wheat or substitute foodstuffs and re-sell them at subsidised prices to the poor . |
| 6 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 8 | ( iv ) If cells of known age are required , culture the isolated cells and examine them at hourly or half hourly intervals for division . |