Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at random " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 2 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 3 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You expect me to believe that the board just chose me at random ? |
| 6 | They just picked you at random ? |