Example sentences of "to sell [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the three-to-seven-year leasing programme is to free 1,250 pubs from the brewers ' tie before the November deadline , rather than try to sell them into a depressed market . |
| 2 | Do you think it 's safe to sell them as a job lot ? ’ |
| 3 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 4 | ‘ The money we 'll get for the house , if we 're lucky enough to sell it at a good price , will just about pay the bills . ’ |
| 5 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 6 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 7 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 8 | ‘ We managed to sell it as a going concern , but got next to nothing for it and had to take a massive write-off . |
| 9 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 10 | The accused who appropriates a grouse hidden by a poacher to be collected later will be guilty of theft ( provided the other elements exist ) , even though he does not intend to sell it in a pub . |