Example sentences of "and sell [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 2 | Bootleggers then copy the film onto hundreds of VHS tapes and sell them for up to £12 a piece . |
| 3 | If you buy an item at £1 and sell it for £1.50 , how much percentage profit have you made ? |
| 4 | He had originally intended to polish up the wood and sell it for five shillings , but when he was fortunate enough to obtain the gramophone he realised he should repair the machine and install it in the cabinet . |
| 5 | Sir Haydn 's family intended to seek an Abandonment Order for the line and sell it for scrap . |
| 6 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 7 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 8 | However , the investor who had the luck or foresight to predict the fall could have bought November puts with an exercise price of 260p for 10p and sold them for 25p making a gross profit of 150 per cent . |
| 9 | I stole the candle from its socket and sold it for a crust of bread and a stoup of water from an ale wife . |
| 10 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 11 | I just wondered what your response to it was , seeing as er what you 're doing is getting information to which you 're not entitled , and selling it for money to other people . |
| 12 | A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) . |
| 13 | The coat factory produces the coat and sells it for £40 . |