Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though Turtons ' had selected their file indiscriminately from stock to do battle with the French champion , even though the French company had brought over a special engineer to manipulate their product while Turtons ' had picked a man at random from the Sappers and Miners at the Exhibition , the French file had been humiliated . |
| 2 | He might as well have picked a family at random out of the telephone book and stayed with them . |
| 3 | Part of Dr Brian Eyre , AEA Chief Executive 's visit to Culham last month incorporated a look at current work in Fusion , in particular the START experiment , and at new areas being developed for plasma processing . |
| 4 | The amputee 's tongue flickered silently , stumpily , as though tasting the molecules of Lexandro 's sweat which escaped into the air , before he resumed his discourse : ‘ The longest that anyone has endured a nerveglove at level tertius until irreversible insanity , is fifty-two minutes — by which time the pain signals were so burned into the nerves that they could never cease thereafter . ’ |
| 5 | Make a mark in the centre of the line and , using a set square , drawn a guideline at right angles from it . |
| 6 | They 've got a homicide at Royal Oak . |
| 7 | police rang them up this woman had rung him up , she 's got a farm at Great Alton and |
| 8 | Let us consider democracy in local government and the three Secretaries of State for the Environment who have had a go at local government taxation . |
| 9 | After he had had a spell at Southern League Bedford Town , Palace awarded Roy a Benefit match on 15 March 1961 in token of his services to our club . |
| 10 | I 've had a package at long last er back from EARS er but I have n't actually erm put it onto the computer yet because it 's erm it 's proving a bit temperamental at the moment and I did n't want to risk overloading it with with yet another er software package u until I 've had it seen to . |
| 11 | In the end of season video ( I think ) he mentioned that he had recognised a problem at right back VERY early on . |
| 12 | Mark Wood has been appointed a partner at Newcastle-based law firm Wilkinson Maughan 's commercial litigation department . |
| 13 | So we had chosen an exit at random , and I stepped over one of those high door-frames which are presumably intended to stop the sea water from sloshing into the saloon . |