Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I entered a studio at random , and spoke to a young man behind a battered desk . |
| 2 | He jinked and tried a burst at long range , but the Halberstadt was diving hard now and pulling away . |
| 3 | Environment Minister David Maclean told an audience at Tory Central Office : ‘ The rain of the last few days goes some way to replenishing the reservoirs . |
| 4 | Merrill opened a drawer at random , took out a file and feigned immediate interest in its contents . |
| 5 | Anthony Gittens , secretary of the Britons from 1949 to 1973 and a member since 1924 , was a prominent member of the IFL in the 1930s and opened a branch at Kentish Town in London . |
| 6 | I straightened up , opened a cupboard at random and took out two tumblers . |
| 7 | They say he made a speech at Dull . ’ |
| 8 | Open one of the new novels of the 1950s and read a page at random , and one is reminded of the inter-war comic fictions of P. G. Wodehouse or the early social novels of George Orwell . |
| 9 | Fortunately for Middlesbrough , scout Barrie Geldart stepped on the scene and arranged a trial at Ayresome Park . |
| 10 | I selected a page at random and started reading . |
| 11 | In the case of legacy per damnationem , the legatee was not of course owner , but he was the beneficiary of a civil-law obligation imposed on the heir by the testator : the words used for such a legacy , damnas esto dare , generated a liability at civil law for the heir to make over the property to the legatee . |
| 12 | He opened it and chose a sentence at random . |
| 13 | She took the menu , scowled at it as if every dish carried a health warning , chose a couple at random and handed it back . |
| 14 | Firemen attended a blaze at British Steel 's Lackenby Works , on Teesside in the early hours of yesterday . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher , in Commons exchanges with Mr Neil Kinnock , rejected criticism in Hong Kong and Britain and took a swipe at foreign critics by urging them to help accommodate the boat people . |
| 16 | The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’ |
| 17 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |
| 18 | In 1989 Toyota , which then owned 41 per cent of Piper 's Japanese sales agency , acquired an FBO at Long Beach , California which specialises in buying and selling used business jets . |
| 19 | On this occasion he occupied a chair at right angles to his desk , and he leaned much further back than had been his custom , stretching out his legs ; and , being denied by this posture the opportunity of studying the floor while collecting his thoughts , he addressed the bulk of his remarks first to his feet . |
| 20 | Yes , it may be , I mean in fact he he was some problems by Gooch because he , Gooch put a man at deep sort of mid wicket or square leg another one back there to stop him hooking . |
| 21 | The judge ruled that the whole operation including the obtaining of fingerprints on the receipts had to be considered as a whole , and , since the evidence at the shop had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion at common law to exclude the challenged evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
| 22 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 23 | Then it liked a little higher , flattened out and set a course at sub-radar altitude . |
| 24 | Colts County Champions Lancashire celebrated their share in a unique treble when the Lancashire RFU held a dinner at Old Trafford to celebrate their senior team winning the Senior County Championship , their U21s sharing the U21 title with Surrey and the colts retaining the national colts title . |