Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |
| 2 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 3 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 4 | He has won £10,000 at the bookies after betting £200 , at odds of 50–1 , on a rise in the number of Tory seats in Scotland . |
| 5 | ( For example , they may wish to increase staff at a time when government is committed to reducing civil service numbers . ) |
| 6 | The church cost £2,000 at the time . |
| 7 | Mike Gatting was very disappointing , with only 266 runs in eight Test innings at an average of 33.25 and a dreadful 7.66 in six one-day innings . |
| 8 | The average British Holstein type of cow stands 145cm at the withers and weighs 655kg , while the bull is up to 183cm and 1,360kg in extreme cases . |
| 9 | I hope people at the back can hear , erm , we obviously took up action on the resolution passed last year , in two or three different ways . |
| 10 | When accused of promoting sales at a time when they were incapable of supplying the electricity , the Board chairmen were robustly defensive . |
| 11 | We have , however , recently contributed towards the purchase by ECTF of the CABI ‘ TREES ’ CD-ROM , which can now be accessed by all RBGE staff at the Darwin Library . |
| 12 | JEALOUS Jerry Hall is quizzing staff at the chateau Mick Jagger bought for her — about claims he spent secret nights there with Carla Bruni . |
| 13 | During the seven months of its inclusion , ESD added £5m at the operating line , a £1½m benefit to profits after financing charges on the cash paid . |
| 14 | Tickets , priced £7.50 at the Ritz and £7.50 at the Free Trade Hall , are available from usual agents . |
| 15 | San Jose-based Chips & Technologies Inc has come out with a universal input-output controller with a parallel port to accelerate printing under Microsoft Corp Windows and other graphic user interfaces : called the 82C735 , the controller looks after the printing with Printgine , an enhanced bi-directional parallel port interface that can transfer data at a rate claimed to be 100 times faster than existing systems , sending up to 2M-bytes per second of data to printers , scanners , local area networks , tape back-up systems and other peripherals connected to a parallel port . |
| 16 | Everett , who had been ordered to take a rest at 98 trips , was testing aircraft at the Group Maintenance Unit when he heard that there was a spare aircraft going a-begging at his old squadron . |
| 17 | Everyone presenting data at the conference was careful to point out that they were not saying that lead is safe , even at low levels , but the ‘ do n't knows ’ do not form a powerful lobby . |
| 18 | THE gold-trimmed wedding suit of King James II , made in 1673 , is expected to fetch £200,000 at a London auction in November . |
| 19 | Greg Martin also paid £1,380 at the Christie 's sale for a 1890 halfpenny coin shot through the centre by the legendary sharpshooter with her Winchester . |
| 20 | A SWORD said to have been used by poet Lord Byron in the 1823 Greek independence war is likely to fetch £4,000 at a London auction . |
| 21 | ADOLF Hitler 's typewriter is expected to fetch £80,000 at an auction in Sydney . |
| 22 | A first issue from 1979 , one of only 150 , and drawings by editor Chris Donald are expected to fetch £500 at the Anderson and Garland showrooms in Newcastle next Wednesday . |
| 23 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 24 | The original Air Ministry design certificate for this aircraft fetched £3,100 at the Sotheby 's sale . |
| 25 | Ford 's bull-whip has played no mean role either — the whip raised £12,500 at an auction in aid of new archaeological science laboratories for the Institute of Archaeology at University College London . |
| 26 | Mrs Swords and her friends raised £45 selling knitted toys , while Gainford villagers raised £125 at a Lent Lunch and Darlington Philatelic Society collected £60 selling stamps . |
| 27 | Drayton class members raised £80 at a summer fete for alterations to their hall , by organising a bottle stall and raffling two dolls provided by Gladys Hart . |
| 28 | The concert , on April 25 at Mainsforth Community Centre , will be open to anyone over 14 and tickets will cost £2 at the door . |
| 29 | Police were last night hunting two youths who threatened staff at a newsagents on Ford Estate , Sunderland before stealing the till . |
| 30 | The man in his late twenties threatened staff at the Alliance and Leicester branch on High Street in Oxford.It 's not yet known how much money was taken . |