Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 2 | Woodway Park School , Coventry , is assembling kits for bio-reactors — special vessels in which bacteria can be put to work — and selling them at a profit to other schools across the country . |
| 3 | Stephen Bayley , former director of the Design Museum , will chair a debate , taking questions from the floor ( many pre-wrapped ) and flinging them at a panel of designers , architects , patrons and critics , among them Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , and Mies van der Rohe buff . |
| 4 | He became suspicious and denounced them at a branch meeting . |
| 5 | And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit . |
| 6 | laughing up their sleeves , ca n't even bloody sell anything , but sell them at a profit . |