Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can also be used to establish the propensity of different ACORN categories to buy different products or services , or to use them at particular rates ; and to analyse their exposure and reaction to different forms of promotional and advertising media . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Giotto will fly to Halley 's comet in 1986 , and photograph it at close quarters . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 7 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 8 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I , I 'm going to have to have more than one meeting and let people , say you 've got to come to one or the other and have them at different times during the week . |
| 11 | They obtained some preserved embryo amphisbaenians — a difficult thing to do as specimens are scarce — and sectioned them at various stages of development . |