Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at close " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 2 | The normal posture hides these bright colours ; the display reveals them at close quarters . |
| 3 | Giotto will fly to Halley 's comet in 1986 , and photograph it at close quarters . |
| 4 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 5 | There 's no more dangerous animal in the jungle if you surprise him at close quarters . " |
| 6 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 7 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 8 | You can shoot them at close range I mean there was a |