Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] 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 | Environmental Issues is your magazine , and anything and everything is considered for inclusion , so do ring , write , fax or grab me at a conference ( well not literally ! ) with your information . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My best friends , Ada , Nora and Nives , all had bicycles , which put me at a serious disadvantage . |
| 6 | unless they 're going to let , unless people are going to buy them and let them at a reasonable rent to people |
| 7 | And I can remember having big long sheets and they would take us into Nottingham and just dump you at a shop and say now you know , go in and fill that in . |
| 8 | The Peacock Committee was convinced that it was no longer possible to recommend ‘ no change ’ to either the licence fee system or the funding structure of broadcasting as a whole ; the differences between the two sources of revenue would create recurring crises for the BBC and put it at a competitive disadvantage compared to the ITV structure . |
| 9 | What I 'm , what I 'm saying is if , if you want to really stir people up , bring in a procedure within telling them what you 're doing , and then imple implement it at a later date and people will say , this is not quality . |
| 10 | I run the search room there , which means that erm people come into Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk and the end of a telephone , and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure that they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strong rooms that we 've got . |
| 11 | That 's right , yes , I run the Search Room there , which means that erm people come in to Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk on the end of a telephone and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strongrooms that we 've got , and then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that . |
| 12 | With a wide smile , one of the waitresses came to collect her , and seat her at a small table in the window . |
| 13 | Knit them at a stitch size as low as the machine will comfortably knit . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | Of course er they have about erm well I 'm not sure , about twenty eight or thirty thousand gallons of diesel stocked up there , and of course in them buying it in bulk like that they get it at a cheaper rate . |
| 16 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 17 | Then I drive it at a brick wall . |
| 18 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 19 | on a , on how I find you at a particular time . |
| 20 | Keep him at a distance — for your own sake . ’ |
| 21 | You erect a radar dish several metres across in your garden , point it at a satellite in the sky and dip into the menu of television and radio programmes that are continually being bounced across the world by broadcast stations . |
| 22 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 23 | This means you get the debt guaranteed by a bank in the buyer 's country , then sell it at a discount to another bank . |
| 24 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 25 | But we change it at a company level . |
| 26 | Has the Prime Minister seen the prospectus from Pathfinders Repossessions plc , which is a company which proposes to buy repossessed homes at auction and then flog them off or rent them at a huge profit ? |
| 27 | However , in view of the importance of the issues raised , we said that we would put our reasons into writing and deliver them at a later date . |
| 28 | Moreover , such texts are the more dangerous in that they affect us at a subconscious level . |
| 29 | At the rally Chief Buthelezi called on the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to ‘ stop posturing ’ and join him at a series of public meetings to eradicate violence in areas where ANC and Inkatha supporters have been at war . |
| 30 | Will my right hon. Friend continue vigorously and robustly to negotiate the British contribution to the European budget and , at the end , submit it at a level which the House of Commons and the country can accept ? |