Example sentences of "[verb] [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 | 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 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 9 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 10 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment , when I was more worried about myself than I am now . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , Veronica , you caught me at a bad moment , ’ Loretta said apologetically . |
| 15 | Mind you can always say to you caught me at a bad time , you say , it 's supposed to have appointment only , but just say , can you , is there any chance of you coming back . |
| 16 | They want management to trust them at a distance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 19 | You want to get to know me at a rate |
| 20 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 22 | ‘ He has no manners , eats like a peasant , talks like he needs salt on his marrow , and is as free with his smile as a tinker cheating you at a fair on a saint 's day . |
| 23 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 24 | Georgiades had asked Owen to meet him at a donkey-vous beside the Ezbekiya Gardens . |
| 25 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 26 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 27 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 28 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 29 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 30 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |