Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun prp] [noun] for [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agreement here was for the sale of a London house for £1.3 million , plus furniture for a further £200,000 . |
| 2 | The best lots were a Georgian inlaid marble chimneypiece , circa 1770 , sold to a London dealer for £21,500 ( $38,915 ) , and a mahogany state bed , George IV , designed by Willliam Porden , circa 1820 sold for £17,000 ( $30,770 ) to an American buyer on behalf of the Gerald Arthur Ralph Foundation for Historic Preservation and Education . |
| 3 | The morning 's highest price was achieved for John Fernley Senior 's picture of a hunt at Belvoir Castle ( lot 90 , est. £80,000–120,000 ) which sold to a London dealer for £119,000 . |
| 4 | The one-piece oscar went to a Leiston man for £105 and the broken one was sold for an amazing £85 . |
| 5 | Estimated at $500–700,000 , it sold to a Citibank client for $715,000 ( £476,666 ) . |
| 6 | He 's also pleased that the centre is now the base for several local groups including the Women 's Institute , the WRVS lunch club , a mother and toddler group , and the ‘ hobby horse ’ club for eight to twelves which attracts over 20 on a Friday evening for folk songs and dance . |
| 7 | A RIFLE owned by the Wild West heroine , Annie Oakley , was sold at a London auction for £84,000 yesterday — five times its expected price — to a private collector from San Francisco . |
| 8 | Competitively priced estimates ensured a high level of sales : Chagall , forty-four lots out of fifty-one sold in the room ; Miró , thirty-one lots out of fifty-one sold ; Picasso , seventy-five out of ninety-two lots sold ; Hockney , thirty-one lots out of thirty-three sold ; Tapies , nineteen out of twenty-four lots sold ; Warhol , thirteen lots out of twenty-one sold , including an astutely estimated set of Marilyns ( lot 842 ) , bought by a London dealer for £115,000 ( $173,650 , est. £100,000–120,000 ) . |
| 9 | Highlights included a rosewood library plan cabinet , circa 1825 , estimate £8–12,000 bought by a private collector for £17,000 ( $29,356 ) ; a mahogany writing table , late George III , circa 1810 , estimate £8–12,000 , bought by a London dealer for £8,800 ( $15,196 ) ; and oddly ten packets of Archer ‘ silk ’ lavatory paper , estimate £5–10 , bought by an American collector for £160 ( $276 ) . |