Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , and depending on their condition , the set could make £40 at auction . |
| 2 | ’ In 1977 a single part of the work ( Part 2 , of six ) made £3,400 at auction . |
| 3 | 2.9 litre Healey produced 148bhp at 5250rpm and 165lb ft at 3500rpm |
| 4 | The Habitat store chain was yesterday fined £8,800 at Basingstoke for overcharging . |
| 5 | The two-litre engine in the Volcane develops 123bhp at 5750rpm and 130lb ft at 2750rpm , enough for claims of 125mph and 8.4secs to 60mph . |
| 6 | At the pre-tax level , profits rose 14% at £16.6m ; earnings per share rose 11% to 16.8 pence . |
| 7 | A YOUNG Co Derry man who set off fireworks in his backyard was fined £20 at Magherafelt Magistrate 's Court yesterday . |
| 8 | VMark Software Inc has reported first quarter net profit up 96.4% at $1.7m after a gain of $650,000 from an accounting change this time and an extraordinary gain of $288,000 last , on turnover up 63.7% to $6.5m ; net earnings per share rose 56% at $0.25 . |
| 9 | Phoenix Technologies Ltd has reported a second quarter net profit of $1.2m , up from just $38,000 last time , on turnover that rose 5.0% at $17.0m ; mid-term net rose 266% at $2.3m on turnover that rose 4.7% at $35.8m . |
| 10 | The discount store group , Kwiksave , rose 14p at 842p as rumours of a full bid from major stakeholder Dairy Farm went the round again . |
| 11 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 12 | Stuart Ferrier , 24 , was fined £600 at Linlithgow Sheriff Court for the attacks on Sharon Brady , 20 , last August . |
| 13 | SynOptics Communications Inc saw first quarter net profit soar 334% to $21.9m on turnover up 123.2% at $157.7m ; net earnings per share rose 296% at $0.95 . |
| 14 | The figures say 189bhp at 5900rpm and 177lb ft of torque at 4700rpm ; your senses say V12-style smoothness , plenty of urge and sharp throttle response . |
| 15 | Thorn EMI Plc has reported net profit for the year to March 31 up 96.0% at £178.5m on turnover up 12.6% at £4,452.3m ; pre-tax profits rose 96.0% at £289.9m and earnings per share rose 101% at 45.3p . |
| 16 | Net earnings per share rose 9% at $1.55 in the quarter , 13% to $4.66 in the year . |
| 17 | She was paid a few shillings to cover funerals , weddings and jumble sales at weekends . |
| 18 | Our announcing staff at CBR had been enhanced by the addition of Ray Mackness , Sheila Russell , Ted Devlin and Saul Ornest , but the main shows were still handled by the old reliables , Dick Halhed and Bill Herbert . |
| 19 | It 's keeping people at work . |
| 20 | It 's important to stress the relationship with Social Services , in that the Agency staff who link the very wide range of people from Social Services , often those people who hold local budgets and are in a position , using the funding that we have allocated to diverse things , to come up with creative solutions for , for er , keeping people at home rather than in , in institutional care . |
| 21 | Dolphins have often rescued people at sea . |
| 22 | Executives will brief staff at meetings in London and Chatham on Wednesday and Friday next week . |
| 23 | Some sociologists argue that another way to find out what is actually happening in the NHS is to observe people at work and talk to them . |
| 24 | Content theories are concerned with explaining those things which actually motivate people at work arising from needs , expectations and goals . |
| 25 | One man was fined £200 at Bangor Magistrates Court on Wednesday for having one of the bogus forms . |
| 26 | A SOUTH Londonderry man who was alleged to have attacked his wife with his fists and a poker , was fined £200 at Magherafelt Magistrate 's Court yesterday . |
| 27 | A SPEEDING motor-cyclist who knocked down and killed a 73-year-old man was fined £2,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 28 | In consequence of the increasing demands of the trade , Mr Wright erected works at Saltley , a locality chosen on account of its central situation and facility of access to some of the most important railways in the kingdom , such for example as the L & NW and the Midland . |
| 29 | Datapoint Corp has reported second quarter net profit of $1.9m , after a $722,000 tax credit , up from just $136,000 last time , on sales that fell 14.3% at $54.3m ; mid-term net profit rose 278% at $2.0m after tax credits of $1.2m this time , $861,000 last , on sales down 4.5% at $114.8m . |
| 30 | Next year he supervised works at Havering manor in Essex . |