Example sentences of "sold for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front runner was a 15in Syrian blue and white jar of about 1400 , which sold for £137,500 ( estimate £30,000-£40,000 ) — again to Dr David Khalili of the Khalili Galleries . |
| 2 | The guide price for Cradley was £1.75m , and market sources believe it sold for about £1.9m , suggesting a yield less than 4.5% . |
| 3 | Organs ranged from the 1,000 guinea pipe organ to ‘ The Sunday School Union 's ‘ New Baby Organ ’ ’ which sold for five guineas and promised a ‘ very sweet tone ’ . |
| 4 | Allsop 's auction was a record sell-out , with all but two of 111 lots sold for a total of £6.3 million , and other auction houses reported successful sales with average prices well above the guides . |
| 5 | They sold for twice the price of a ‘ black label ’ record . |
| 6 | What 's more , the early EG models , which sold for just under £600 , did n't seem to have the feel or charisma of the Customs and Classics . |
| 7 | A design for a tapestry by Rubens set a record when it sold for £748,000 . |
| 8 | A LETTER by author Charlotte Bronte sold for £66,000 yesterday . |
| 9 | ITT opened a radio assembly plant in Livingstone which produced sets that sold for about K12 in the early 1970s ( then about £8 or $20 ) . |
| 10 | Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ? |
| 11 | He put the Old Rectory at Stoney Stanton , Blaby , Leicestershire , on the market for £325,000 in 1990 but it sold for £239,000 — a 25 per cent drop . |
| 12 | A pristine Globe Swift sold for only $ 28,500 . |
| 13 | Oscar sold for £32,000 |
| 14 | The highest selling lots in the sale were lots 77 , a pair of flambeaux by J. Besnier which made FFr1.3 million ( £153,700 ; $232,000 ) and 47 , a pot-a-l'oille by Joubert which sold for FFr1.2 million ( £141,800 ; $214,100 ) . |
| 15 | Another abstract canvas by Kandinsky dating from 1930 ( lot 21 , est. £450,000–550,000 ) sold for £460,000 ( $690,000 ) . |
| 16 | Katz also pushed up the bidding on a finely carved and drilled colossal marble bust of Lucius Verus ( lot 84 ) , attributed during the viewing to Carlo Albacini , which sold for £45,000 ( $72,000 , est. £8,000–10,000 ) . |
| 17 | Highly pictorial in conception — with particular figures reminiscent of van der Weyden — they sold for £82,000 ( $131,200 , est. £30,000–40,000 ) to a private collector . |
| 18 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 19 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |
| 20 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |
| 21 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |
| 22 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |
| 23 | Eighty lots sold for a respectable total of £4.19 million ( $6.29 million ) , with only nine lots failing to find buyers . |
| 24 | Initially knocked down for $160,000 , a bidding dispute led to its immediate reappearance where it sold for $50,000 ( £31,250 ) . |
| 25 | Of the Italian drawings , a newly discovered Perino del Vaga pen and wash study of ‘ Psyche borne on a litter to her marriage festivities ’ , a study for a fresco at the Castel Sant' Angelo , Rome , sold for $34,000 ( £21,250 ; est. $20,000–25,000 ) ; a rare Guercino oiled charcoal academie of a male nude was sold under estimate for $100,000 ( £62,500 ; est. $120,000–150,000 ) ; and the badly-faded Domenico Tiepolo ‘ Scene of Execution ’ made a remarkable $72,500 ( £45,300 ; est. $40,000–60,000 ) . |
| 26 | Lot 179 at Christie 's , a pair of whimsical mixed metals candlesticks , with ‘ dripping wax ’ on the stems ( est. $20–30,000 ) sold for $22,000 ( £15,714 ) to a collector who was underbidder on the duplicate pair , which brought $45,000 in June 1989 . |
| 27 | World records meanwhile were set by Jacob Van Hulsdonck 's ‘ Corbeille de fleurs et fruits ’ which sold for FFr7.5 million last December and two canvases by Anne Valleyer Coster , ‘ Vase de fleurs et fruits ’ and ‘ Fleurs dans un vase ’ , auctioned in July for FFr4 million . |
| 28 | It sold for £23,000 ( $34,500 ) . |
| 29 | Estimated at £20–30,000 , it sold for £32,000 ( $48,000 ) . |
| 30 | Another J. J. Kandler piece was Christie 's lot 220 from estate of late Robert Clarke , a pair of Meissen models of Hoopoes , of around 1740 with nineteenth-century ormolu mounts ; estimated at £30–50,000 , they sold for £34,000 ( $51,000 ) to Munich dealer Freddy Reyes of Roebbig against bidding by Hugo Morley-Fletcher on behalf of a client . |