Example sentences of "was sell [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was intensely serious about the place of art in life , and I can remember painting a picture in the main art room at Berkhamstead , one I was to sell years later in Manchester , and the way in which he valued this gave me a sense of value in my own achievement . |
| 2 | It was selling ads , but it was a start , and things moved rapidly . |
| 3 | I had got first prize for guitar at the Melody Maker contest and soon I was selling stories and now I find my principal interest is still p H. |
| 4 | Mr Jones , 43 , who runs the cafe in Ross-on-Wye , said : ‘ I took exception to the fact that she was selling teas outside our door without informing me first . ’ |
| 5 | Haston was selling papers at Hyde Park Corner when he was accosted by Healy , then a member of the Communist Party . |
| 6 | Well I was selling papers when I was ten years old ten years old . |
| 7 | And everyone was selling memoirs : |
| 8 | A DARLINGTON teenager was selling drugs at an open-air party , a Teesside Crown Court jury decided yesterday . |
| 9 | She was compelled to stop at a particular stall , where a woman was selling crystals . |
| 10 | Mrs Mona Spink , a former national standard-bearer for the British Legion , was selling poppies opposite the RAF chapel , St Clement 's , in the Strand . |
| 11 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 12 | There used to be a place who , place opposite on the same side as the the White Horse that eh , was selling plants , but do n't like that naked fence at all . |
| 13 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 14 | Well they wanted to know why as he was just running a cafe , a cute ; why he was selling jams . |
| 15 | . Well he was selling swedes , everything , potatoes , carrots and things like that . |
| 16 | No doubt the Leeds deli was selling cheeses , meats and yoghurts we 'd never heard of 30 years ago . |
| 17 | I 've seen th this fella came down and he was selling pianos and er he went down this particular terrace and he must have sold seven , eight , or nine or ten on , on both sides . |
| 18 | She tries to slam the door , but I 've got my foot there like I really was selling brushes . |
| 19 | I did not start on my own — a young neighbour was selling children 's garments she bought from a warehouse . |
| 20 | Er , if any shareholder in B Sky B er , was selling shares , we would obviously consider er , whether we went up from our present sixteen percent er , to twenty percent but it would depend on the circumstances at the time . |