Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again not unknown to the market , having been previously estimated at £500,000–700,000 by Sotheby 's then offered to the Louvre , the first of the Rubens , ‘ Portrait of Madame de Vicq ’ ( lot 56 ) , was nonetheless an outstanding work which narrowly failed to sell at £950,000 ( est. £1–1.5 million ) , and sold after the sale . |
| 2 | Among the high estimated lots , a pair of George I wall-sconces , with coat-of-arms in foliage and shell cartouche by Gabriel Sleath , 1717 , failed to sell at £28,000 ( $48,468 ) against estimate of £30–50,000 . |
| 3 | In their special Spanish sale on 28–29 May Christie 's London offered a portrait of Doña Maria Teresa de Vallabriga which failed to sell at £600,000 . |
| 4 | 3T3 cells were grown as monolayers in flasks , collected by trypsinization and allowed to stand at 4°C for 2h before incorporation into reaggregates . |
| 5 | OPT is followed by an expression with the following meanings : Code Assembled Starting at P% Code Assembled Starting at 0% The possible assembler errors are : Out of range — error code 40 . |
| 6 | The defendant 's brother started shouting at Pc . |
| 7 | He refused to accept a travellers ' site at Loch Laggan as a fixed address for Frost , a first offender , who offered to pay at £10 per fortnight . |
| 8 | I was reminded of Isidora whose mummy we had seen at Tuna el-Gebel and of a recurring paradox , destruction by the forces of creation . |
| 9 | He picked up one of those brown shiny golf-balls that I had seen at Pike 's and rolled it across the desk to me . |
| 10 | Mr Haynes explained that the earlier surge in borrowings , which had peaked at £5.2m in December 1990 , had arisen because the company had been publishing too many books on the general publishing side ( as opposed to the car and motor cycle manuals which are Haynes ' core activity ) . |
| 11 | Christie 's were gratified when , on 13 June 1991 , a German transitional commode they had estimated at £250,000 ( DM737,000 ) went for an enormous DM4,682,000 . |
| 12 | In 1986 these had stood at £99.4 billion ; by the beginning of 1992 they had fallen to £16 billion . |
| 13 | City : Waste Management set to float at 600p |
| 14 | The 1990 budget , presented by the government and approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 21 , 1990 , set spending at £Syr61,875 million , 8.5 per cent up on the 1989 budget [ for which see p. 37100 ] . |
| 15 | WITH the road to recovery blocked , profits of hauliers NFC stayed jammed at £66 million in the first nine months of this trading year . |