Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
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 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 .
4 Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed .
5 He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election .
6 He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said .
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