Example sentences of "[pers pn] at a profit " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 2 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 5 | And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit . |
| 6 | It was therefore tempting , and usually easy , to import excessive quantities of goods and then resell them at a profit to local merchants , " from whom " , wrote Callières in 1697 , " they receive a tribute , for lending their names to defraud the Sovereign of his dues " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | laughing up their sleeves , ca n't even bloody sell anything , but sell them at a profit . |