Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schemes that work in well-ordered German or American suburbs , whose honest burghers would never dream of squeezing their junk into a neighbour 's bin or chucking it over a fence at dead of night , may be less successful in city centres . |
| 2 | ‘ The days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline from The Sun and get him to sign an injunction , ’ Mr Todd said . |
| 3 | THE days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline in The Sun , and get him to sign an injunction . |
| 4 | Even in the mid-afternoon there were still copies of most of the morning 's newspapers , and Carson picked up a couple at random . |
| 5 | Smokers and ex-smokers make up a subgroup at increased risk for development of adenocarcinoma in Barrett 's oesophagus ; those patients with specialised type metaplasia and who may benefit from surgical intervention warrant regular endoscopy and biopsy whereas non-smokers are at low risk . |
| 6 | He put out his hands almost against his will , took up one of the mallets and swung it testingly to get the feel of its balance , picked up a punch at random and applied its point , none too deftly because his hands were tremulous , to a half-defined fold of drapery in the nearest block of stone . |
| 7 | He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random . |
| 8 | I pull out a handful at random … |
| 9 | He folded back a page at random and read the chapter heading . |