Example sentences of "[Wh det] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … ? |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Outstanding among these were Ana Maria Pacheco 's ‘ Head ’ ( lot 171 ) , a totemic carved and painted wooden head with real teeth which sold for £4,500 ( $6,750 ; est. £2,000–3,000 ) . |
| 9 | Christie 's Martin Beisly bid successfully on behalf of a client for Lord Leighton 's ‘ The Bracelet ’ , which sold for £380,000 ( $570,000 ) against underbidding by David Mason of MacConnal-Mason on behalf of Andrew Lloyd Webber who gave the final shake of the head at his side . |
| 10 | Auctioneers Rieunier and Bailly-Pommery , whose sales are never spectacular but regularly of good quality , contained thirty-two old and modern paintings in a sale of 24 February which also offered musical instruments , furniture , carpets and sculpture including a Bourdelle ‘ Heraklès archer ’ dated January 1921 which sold for FFr800,000 ( £81,600 ; $142,800 ) , well above its estimate of FFr500,000 . |
| 11 | A more prurient depiction of childhood was Bouguereau 's ‘ Retour des Champs ’ , of a tousled-haired girl carrying a bundle of what seems to be herbs , which sold for $180,000 to the trade ( £103,400 ) ( est. $100–150,000 ) . |
| 12 | The property of a collection formed by Helmut and Margot Kraetz , whose German and Minimalist art had sold so well in New York in November , they attracted enthusiastic competition and fetched a total of $501,500 ( £278,600 ) , the most expensive lot being an untitled sheet ( lot 104 , est. $35–45,000 ) , executed in gouache and crayons in 1964 , which sold for $75,000 ( £41,700 ) . |
| 13 | Among the lots realising sums above their estimates were Ferdinand Khnopff 's ‘ Bruges ’ , an atmospheric work using a mixture of techniques , which sold for DM155,000 ( £53,400 ; $96,200 ) ; Chagall 's watercolour ‘ Vitebsk ’ , selling for DM100,000 ( £34,500 ; $62,000 ) , and Schmidt-Rottluff 's watercolour ‘ Mädchen ’ , bought for DM175,000 ( £60,300 ; $18,600 ) . |
| 14 | A West German car exported to the UK which sold for DM 36,000 in WG would still sell for £12,000 at the exchange rate £1 = DM3.00 . |
| 15 | The sale opened will with a miniature armour of good quality which sold for £2,000 , four times the top estimate . |
| 16 | A recipe for it or a description of this beguiling dish of peppers , onions , tomatoes and eggs appears in every one of his books , even down to the booklet commissioned from him by the Romary biscuit firm and which sold for sixpence . |
| 17 | The government retained a minority share in the Sicartsa rolled steel mills which sold for $170,000,000 to the Villacero Group , while Grupo Acerero del Norte bought Altos Hornos de Mexico for $350,000,000 and took over $350,000,000 of its debt . |
| 18 | And yet , he painted delicate water colours which sold for high prices . |