Example sentences of "[verb] them at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | laughing up their sleeves , ca n't even bloody sell anything , but sell them at a profit . |
| 2 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 3 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 4 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 5 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 8 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
| 9 | They want management to trust them at a distance . |
| 10 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 11 | ‘ There are people who are prepared to take advantage , selling trees under false pretences , valuing them at a lot more than they are worth . |
| 12 | which is burnt off when the whole thing gets fired in the kiln , so what will have to happen is the , your pots you 've done so far , once they 're thoroughly dried and go into the kiln , they 're fired at a high temperature and then they 'll come out this bit fired you 'll then separate them with oxide pastes , dip them into glaze , which I 'll explain in a minute , and re-fire them at a higher temperature , the glazed would |
| 13 | Both men also received annuities of 1,000 marks , which went some considerable way towards endowing them at a level appropriate to their rank . |
| 14 | ‘ Our drivers can only negotiate them at a maximum of 15mph , ’ he said . |
| 15 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 16 | The airlines , facing their fourth successive year in the red , are urging the EC to drop plans to lower maximum noise levels and nitrogen oxide emissions , arguing that they could increase operating costs , reduce the resale value of operators ' fleets and put them at a competitive disadvantage to international rivals . |
| 17 | unless they 're going to let , unless people are going to buy them and let them at a reasonable rent to people |
| 18 | Replacing them at a familial level , the spice-box has taken its place , sometimes simple , sometimes ornate ; a witness to the fragrance of that Sabbath grace that lingers still . |
| 19 | It 's good practice to use three balls in rotation in cold weather , one being in play on any one hole , and the two others remaining in your pocket where your body heat can keep them at a reasonable temperature . |
| 20 | Quite simply , such an additional demand for the currencies concerned would help keep them at a higher level , with a consequent reduction in their export surpluses . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Assessments of the permissible level of incidental catch should be based on the desirability of returning dolphin stocks to original levels , not holding them at a depleted level through a continuation of a high level of incidental kill . |
| 23 | It is much better to attempt to prevent fears arising , rather than having to rectify them at a later stage . |
| 24 | Knit them at a stitch size as low as the machine will comfortably knit . |
| 25 | Gaily followed them at a discreet distance and watched as they lowered Miss Faith Lavender into her last resting place . |
| 26 | Tero followed them at a distance , watching her new friend with sorrowful anxious eyes . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 29 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 30 | It usually works by acting as an external focus for the electric fields generated by the brain , and directs them at a receptive machine or conditioned brain elsewhere . |