Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] random " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The evening was warm and calm , but the side-streets through which he wandered at random were almost deserted . |
| 2 | We set off , stopped at random , pottered around , changed our plans , and got the first crossing from a port we had n't arrived at . |
| 3 | Its lights flickered at random and it made odd beeping noises . |
| 4 | They did not seem to follow any particular pattern , but occurred at random and with varying intensity . |
| 5 | He had paid special attention to the hammerers ; they were all decorated with various kinds of facial hair ranging from pencil thin , Ronald Coleman moustaches to curly , Ancient Assyrian style full sets of ringlets , and their diminutive , painted jackets were striped , starred , arrowed and dotted at random . |
| 6 | ’ One traditional way of discovering God 's will had been that of the biblical sortes — the question would be posed and the Bible then opened at random . |
| 7 | The book of the Gospels is laid on the shoulders of the newly chosen bishop , and opened at random , and a finger laid on the page — ’ |
| 8 | The complex PCR smear above the vector band was gel purified , treated with Geneclean and labeled by random hexamer priming ( 4 ) with 50 µCi each of [ α- 32 P ] dCTP and [ α- 32 P ] dATP . |
| 9 | The tunnels were gloomier , the only illumination coming from occasional bf tubes suspended awkwardly from holes hacked at random in the roof , no more than half a metre above their heads . |
| 10 | Percentage measures of performance should therefore be compared to that expected from random selection . |
| 11 | She made it to the staircase , and dashed at random back into the bulk of the house . |
| 12 | In conjunction with J. P. Manning Prentice , who was then director of the British Astronomical Association 's meteor section , Alcock watched as particles of dust from space dashed at random to their fiery death in the atmosphere , appearing as shooting stars . |
| 13 | Where characters appeared and disappeared at random , and the plot was therefore ever-changing and never got anywhere . |
| 14 | Anton , his rolling bobbing head , in and out : and his mouth was ghastly , streaming blood and he bit at random , where he could : a cannibal feast , and there seemed no end to Parker , elephant big , but soft and white and easy to bleed , full of smells ; he could , heightened senses , whiff the slightest reek , the ebb and flow , as might a jackal , the strength drawn out of Parker . |
| 15 | Robyn entered the tiny shop and bought at random , grabbing anything that was familiar — an odd assortment of things that would sustain her with the least amount of effort , paying her money to the assistant vaguely , absent-mindedly . |
| 16 | Most of my splicing I did at random , automatically . |
| 17 | To give himself a moment to recover control , he looked again out of the window and spoke at random . |
| 18 | Even though the table excludes those unable to give an appropriate answer on both occasions the answers which were given could mean a variety of different things ; for example , that the respondent really was feeling worried when she said so , or that she thought ‘ worried ’ meant something else , or that she thought the answer meant something else , or that she answered at random . |
| 19 | ‘ Tommy 's soccer is improving enormously , ’ he said at random , having no idea , nor caring , whether this was true or not . |
| 20 | But many sidle in , hiding behind a shopping list of the equipment they think they need ( often drawn up by a friend ) or picked at random from a magazine ) . |
| 21 | During the week of July 20 to 24 , picked at random , the Daily Mail reported 12 violent crimes against women and one against men . |
| 22 | Here is an example , picked at random , of this somewhat implausible claim : |
| 23 | Obviously the modern sophisticated reader will know that one can use the highest points in each square of a fine grid or take the heights of points picked at random to provide data . |
| 24 | We might be asked just as well to vote on any three pages picked at random out of ’ Alice in Wonderland ’ as on the motions before the House tonight . |