Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giotto will fly to Halley 's comet in 1986 , and photograph it at close quarters . |
| 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 | ( iv ) If cells of known age are required , culture the isolated cells and examine them at hourly or half hourly intervals for division . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 9 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 10 | O K , erm , and you do have to actually pay back the premiums other people would stop and start them at random . |
| 11 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They obtained some preserved embryo amphisbaenians — a difficult thing to do as specimens are scarce — and sectioned them at various stages of development . |