Example sentences of "to sell [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to sell them a product without educating them to challenge and to care about the ingredients that go into those products would be wrong . |
| 2 | How should one estimate the faults of those who offered incense without any torture , those who gave way only after cruel torture by rack and fire , and those who had not actually offered incense at all but had bribed a friendly official to sell them a certificate to say they had done so ? |
| 3 | Perkins group managing director , Tony Gilroy says : ‘ Despite the current recession in the construction industry , we expect to sell them a lot more than that under the new agreement . |
| 4 | in order to get them , in order to get them to come , surely you 've got to sell them the idea that they 're going to get something useful out of it |
| 5 | ‘ You would n't be trying to sell me a ticket ? ’ |
| 6 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 7 | He tried to sell me a Pottz picture . |
| 8 | I first discovered Emily 's dubious devotion to duty in Cannes , when a French Moroccan chap caught hold of my arm in an attempt to sell me a lurid rug . |
| 9 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I persuaded him to sell me the rights to manufacture the Seven and I took over everything except the Lotus name . ’ |
| 11 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 12 | ‘ You want to sell me the wig back ? |
| 13 | Unlike the demos you get on ZZAP ! 64 covertapes , PD demos tend to illustrate what the programmer or the host machine can do rather than try to sell you a game . |
| 14 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 15 | If you go to buy a secondhand car these days they invariably try to sell you a guarantee or a warranty on it . |
| 16 | I suggest you visit your local ‘ Deli ’ which should be able to sell you the type that come with edible snails ! |
| 17 | If I do n't persuade my father to sell you the club , you 'll manufacture enough fake information to make the police suspicious enough to close me down ? ’ |
| 18 | Somebody tries to sell him a Toledo sword ; he waves the man away . |
| 19 | He tried to sell him a picture . |
| 20 | Later he agreed with a sub-purchaser to sell him a similar cargo at 19s. per ton . |
| 21 | At the Ryecroft bail hostel in Gloucester , where Hagans was living at the time , another witness said Hagans had tried to sell him a wedding ring for ten pounds , and was wearing a gold chain necklace . |
| 22 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 23 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |
| 24 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
| 25 | In our example , if B has induced A to sell him the goods by making a misrepresentation , then B will acquire only a voidable title . |
| 26 | How on earth had Gesner persuaded the Volksoper to sell him the costumes ? |
| 27 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps he was going to try to sell her a story for the column ? |
| 29 | Erm , so you might be able to sell her a monitor . |
| 30 | The dealer will himself complete another form which will constitute an offer by him to the finance company to sell it the goods . |