Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To borrow an analogy from an eminent astronomer , if you take the parts of an airliner and jumble them up at random , the likelihood that you would happen to assemble a working Boeing is vanishingly small . |
| 2 | Richard was also pleased with the visit , and drove us home at high speed ( Bob said he touched 100 mph — ca n't say I noticed . |
| 3 | If you took all the cells of a swallow and put them together at random , the chance that the resulting object would fly is not , for everyday purposes , different from zero . |
| 4 | You think if I had n't bought it and done it up at enormous personal cost this cottage would still be standing ? ’ |
| 5 | This means that if you start with a random collection of objects above the hole , and some force shakes and jostles them about at random , after a while the objects above and below the hole will come to be nonrandomly sorted . |
| 6 | Sadly , the sort of quality that can be achieved from such bit mapped graphics is rather less than the advertisements might lead you to believe , especially when it comes to enlarging or reducing them and printing them out at high resolution . |