Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] to a telephone [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The session 's highest price was paid for Andy Warhol 's ‘ Four Marilyns ’ ( lot 32 , est. £400,000–500,000 ) , which sold to a telephone bidder for £555,000 ( $832,500 ) . |
| 2 | Other strong prices included Dubuffet 's ‘ Petite Musique pour Edith ’ ( lot 11 , est. £180,000–240,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder identified as an American dealer for £270,000 ( $405,000 ) , and a beautiful stabile by Calder ( lot 41 , est. £70,000–90,000 ) which was purchased for £173,000 ( $259,500 ) by Davlyn 's Joe Nehmad who , with his brother David , were conspicuous bidders at all the sales of the week . |
| 3 | The afternoon 's surprise was the determined competition for Lucian Freud 's small and rather unattractive nude portrait ( lot 55 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for £115,000 ( $172,500 ) . |
| 4 | Keenest interest was directed towards a string abstract canvas by Gerhard Richter ( lot 3 , est. $200,000–250,000 ) , which was purchased by art advisor , Jeffrey Deitch , for $220,000 ( £146,667 ) , and Chuck Close 's portrait of Cindy Sherman ( lot 6 , est. $200,000–250,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for $210,000 ( £140,000 ) . |
| 5 | Most notable among them were a Louis XVI ormolu-and-Wedgwood porcelain mounted clock thermometer and its companion barometer-thermometer attributed to Adam Weisweiler ( est. $150–200,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for $250,000 ( £138,900 ) and an amusing pair of painted jeux de loto ( essentially eighteenth-century bingo cards in their holders ) , which sold over the telephone for $60,000 ( £33,300 ) ( est. $20–30,000 ) . |