Example sentences of "[pers pn] at random " in BNC.
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| 1 | They just picked you at random ? |
| 2 | The War Councils of the gangs had chosen it at random . |
| 3 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 4 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 5 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 6 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 7 | You expect me to believe that the board just chose me at random ? |
| 8 | In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled . |
| 9 | Any feature where they differ is chosen from one of them at random . |
| 10 | Made up of three National Certificate Modules , each cluster is designed to encourage students , especially those in schools , to take coherent groups of modules , rather than choosing them at random . |
| 11 | O K , erm , and you do have to actually pay back the premiums other people would stop and start them at random . |