Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at a [noun sg] " 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 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 4 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 7 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
| 8 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They want management to trust them at a distance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You want to get to know me at a rate |
| 13 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 14 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 15 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 16 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 17 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 18 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 19 | Any chariot may have an additional giant wolf to pull it at a cost of +4 points . |
| 20 | ‘ There are people who are prepared to take advantage , selling trees under false pretences , valuing them at a lot more than they are worth . |
| 21 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 22 | ‘ No , his analyst told me at a party in New York . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Our drivers can only negotiate them at a maximum of 15mph , ’ he said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mr C Mrs D what does that show ya at a glance ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The facilities table on page 10 will show you at a glance which Clubs offer a Club 16 . |
| 28 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 29 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 30 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |