Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] range " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are indications of scorching and the presence of particles of smokeless powder suggest a firearm wound , the weapon having been discharged at close range . ’ |
| 2 | However , Lindstedt cautions that such visual behaviour as peering closely at the work being undertaken by no means offers a complete solution to the problems arising from the need to work at close range . |
| 3 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 4 | The 18-year-old was shot at close range outside a post office in Exeter , Devon . |
| 5 | Evidence from police and forensic officers said Mrs Prescott looked as if she 'd been sewing the hem of a curtain , when she was shot at close range in the back of the head . |
| 6 | Most of them were shot at close range . |
| 7 | Yesterday it was revealed that PC Hall escaped death by a whisker when he was shot at point-blank range . |
| 8 | Despite being shot at point-blank range , Mr Dale ( 43 ) survived , but Mr Norris ( 46 ) died almost instantly . |
| 9 | Senator Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz , founder and leader of the right-wing Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) , was shot at point-blank range by two gunmen as he left the Catholic University in Santiago , where he had been giving a law lecture , on April 1 . |
| 10 | The killing led to rioting by African students who claimed that the officer wilfully shot at point-blank range . |
| 11 | Midway , over the wall bordering the road on the right , will be seen at close range The Tarn with the Ribble beyond and Ingleborough forming a massive background . |
| 12 | Police sources said the shooting had the hallmarks of a ‘ professional execution ’ : a light handgun was used that would only ensure death if used at point-blank range . |
| 13 | The original windows of the ‘ east ’ gable and the side walls having become low-level lights closely related to the new upper floor , the fine stained glass they contain can now also be admired at close range . |
| 14 | The two were apparently on guard duty at the Lille Barracks , Farnham , Surrey , when 19-year-old Robert Smith was blasted at point-blank range . |
| 15 | By now , Hoover was a politicians ' nightmare — perceived by some as the perfect cop , but known at close range for his rants , his sexual obsessions , his card index and his file cabinets which by now contained all the sins , real and imagined , of the political world . |
| 16 | And when Saunders was sent clear in the 40th minute , Seaman saved at point-blank range on the edge of his area . |
| 17 | An Teallach reappears at close range and dominates the scene , refusing to be ignored . |
| 18 | We fought at close range , not more than twenty steps apart , and drove the soldiers back upon their main lines , leaving their dead in our hands . |
| 19 | The rarest and one of the largest of the breeding vultures of the region , an all-brown typical broad-winged vulture , readily distinguished at close range by massive bill and bare red skin on head and throat . |
| 20 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 21 | The tragic toll was reached at 8.30pm when gunmen boarded a bus outside a Catholic club in Republican West Belfast and singled out their victim who they shot at point-blank range . |
| 22 | Guns fired at close range do , unlike television cop shows , blow holes in people . |
| 23 | ‘ A bullet fired at close range into the back of the neck , ’ Wycliffe said . |
| 24 | The nature of the wound suggests a bullet of medium calibre fired at close range , under 60 centimetres . |
| 25 | The bullet , fired at point-blank range , hit him in the middle of the back and travelled upwards and out of his body . |
| 26 | Although short sticks can be used to jab at close range , longer sticks and chains become almost useless when there is no room to swing them in , or against a very close opponent . |
| 27 | Regis and Gary Bannister were both denied at close range before MacDonald spared us extra time with a rising 25-yarder which found the top left corner of Steve Sherwood 's net . |
| 28 | Her individualist skipper — Sub-Lieutenant R.C.M.V. Wynn RNVR — had devised an engineless torpedo with 2,200lb ( over 450kg ) of explosive to be launched at close range . |
| 29 | SERB forces were last night closing in on the last Muslim-held stronghold in eastern Bosnia , battling at close range with defenders of Gorazde . |