Example sentences of "sell [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town says that , of Britain 's 100 most prescribed drugs , he can buy 67 abroad , sell them for 20 per cent less than the NHS price , and still make anything from 3 to 300 per cent profit . |
| 2 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 3 | " We sell them for a penny each , " Miss Poraway explained . |
| 4 | More and more horses are falling prey to rustlers who often sell them for slaughter abroad . |
| 5 | Bootleggers then copy the film onto hundreds of VHS tapes and sell them for up to £12 a piece . |
| 6 | Howar they used to work a lot with finishing the cattle sell them for . |
| 7 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 8 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 9 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 10 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 11 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 12 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 13 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 14 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 15 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 16 | However , the investor who had the luck or foresight to predict the fall could have bought November puts with an exercise price of 260p for 10p and sold them for 25p making a gross profit of 150 per cent . |
| 17 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 18 | Terry Rourke sold me for enough dollars to buy himself and his true girlfriend a small business . ’ |
| 19 | one who steals bodies from cemeteries to sell them for dissection , like Jerry Cruncher in TTC . |
| 20 | And although they were n't allowed to sell them for money , people could give them objects , could give them things like coffee and things like that |
| 21 | they had to sell them for three and threepence , three farthings . |
| 22 | There was a rush by speculators to buy the true classics , subject them to extremely expensive rebuilds , and then to attempt to sell them for sky-high prices . |
| 23 | That gives us the potential of raising two thousand pounds , because we intend to sell them for one ninety nine . |
| 24 | I mean what were you going to hoping to sell them for anyway ? |
| 25 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 26 | She 'd like to sell him for Dotty . |
| 27 | He sent a copy to Hall , with a request to sell it for sixpence at the exhibition . |
| 28 | Green was evidently helping to sell it for Yates in Manchester , as Harrop 's Mercury , December 12th 1787 , p.1906 says , ‘ subscribers may be supplied also by Mr. Green , Manchester , who was an assistant in this work ’ . |
| 29 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 30 | It was no longer possible for casual thieves to take an animal for their own use , or to sell it for agricultural purposes in a village five or ten kilometres distant . |