Example sentences of "sold [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Pitham & Hehl ( 1976 ) 65 Cr App R 45 , a person took the two defendants to his friend 's house and sold them the furniture of his friend who was in prison . |
| 2 | Later , when other countries wanted to make their own cloth from jute , the workers of Dundee made and sold them the textile machinery . |
| 3 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
| 4 | He sold me the caravan . |
| 5 | All you need in order to be able to take advantage of a low-cost upgrade is a proof of purchase ( registration counts ) which might be the first page of your manual for the product you already have , your sales invoice from the dealer that sold you the product ( a photocopy will do ) , a copy of the setup disk ( they 're serialised , you see ) , or , for Windows , a copy of the invoice for a machine that comes complete with Windows . |
| 6 | Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks . |
| 7 | I called on the editor and sold him the idea that I should write the feature on my province ‘ Saskatchewan ’ , which I did , thus earning $30. towards the expenses of my Vancouver holiday . |
| 8 | The employer will have a contract with the person who sold him the equipment and will probably be able to recoup his losses through a contract action . |
| 9 | I sold him the car did n't I ? |
| 10 | Yeah Geoff sold him the car |