Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at a [noun] " 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 | She was , as well , a woman above reproach , avoiding involvement in all intrigues , keeping everyone at a distance and thus surrounded by universal esteem . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They want management to trust them at a distance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You want to get to know me at a rate |
| 14 | In the words of a single 19-year-old trainee pilot : ‘ In an ideal world you 'd be able to meet someone at a bus-stop , go for a drink , take them home and bonk their brains out — and then go home to your girlfriend for dinner . ’ |
| 15 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 16 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 17 | HOLDER John Parrott yesterday pronounced himself at a career peak after reaching the semi-finals of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship at Preston . |
| 18 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 19 | The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time . |
| 20 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 21 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 22 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 23 | This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved . |
| 24 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 25 | She found herself at a loss for words . |
| 26 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 27 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 28 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 29 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 30 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |