Example sentences of "to sell it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was I was tempted to sell it off cheap but I do n't want to sell it off too cheap cos it 's |
| 2 | ‘ The money we 'll get for the house , if we 're lucky enough to sell it at a good price , will just about pay the bills . ’ |
| 3 | In some West Indian islands a yacht arriving without one will be confronted with a customs officer producing a rolled-up flag from his pocket and offering to sell it at an inflated price in an atmosphere of thinly disguised pressure . |
| 4 | Doug wants to sell it at its street value , which is two million dollars . |
| 5 | we 're not , like , intending to sell it at all but |
| 6 | Some ministers , notably Mr Nicholas Ridley , registered scepticism about the wisdom of the scheme during the meeting and doubted their ability to sell it to MPs and voters . |
| 7 | Some ministers registered scepticism about the wisdom of the scheme during the meeting and doubted their ability to sell it to MPs and voters . |
| 8 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 9 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 10 | No special secrecy was attached to the cruiser — indeed , Khrushchev told the disconcerted Admiralty that he would be glad to sell it to them because cruisers had been out-dated by missiles . |
| 11 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 12 | In August 1915 the receiver , Mr Coombes , decided he could no longer continue in charge of the club and offered to sell it to the Leeds Northern [ Rugby ] Union Club at Headingley , who were interested . |
| 13 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 14 | He offers to sell it to me for £25 . |
| 15 | Where the value of the intangible asset is at an all-time low , it may be possible to sell it to an IOFC operation and realise a capital loss in the selling location . |
| 16 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 17 | I 'd rather fill this page with angry letters attacking people who are entertained/moved by fascism , racism , homophobia , whether it 's Morrissey ‘ exploring its fascination ’ or someone scooping out their own shit and trying to sell it to us as ‘ common sense ’ , than have another letter like yours , the first half ( not printed here , lucky readers ) of which is something incomprehensible about The Wedding Present — DQ |
| 18 | Once he has persuaded a certain colleague in the States to sell it to him . |
| 19 | The other market for CICS/2 may do something — the company hopes to sell it to are those businesses ‘ upsizing ’ their applications . |
| 20 | So the bet is that the prime minister now has two years — with luck , much calmer than the past one — to start putting a programme into law , followed by another year to sell it to the people in the run-up to re-election . |
| 21 | The Mirror Group 's decision to sell it to him was perhaps the greatest miscalculation in post-war press history . |
| 22 | ‘ After all , even if Jefferson has perfected some magic putter which gives Harley an illegal edge on the greens , he will never be allowed to sell it to the ordinary punter , so there 's no point . |
| 23 | McDonnell Douglas Corp has given up on its idea of floating its McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International Ltd Pick and Pick-under-Unix business on the London International Stock Exchange , and instead has agreed in principle to sell it to its management , who will retain effective day-to-day control , backed by a few blue-chip investors including Baring Capital Investors Ltd . |
| 24 | Texas Instruments Inc finally threw in the towel on the wasting asset of its computer business , and signed a letter of intent to sell it to Hewlett-Packard Co on undisclosed terms . |
| 25 | And I was going to sell it to Harrods , it 's such an awful book , I really had decided to sell it to Harrods . |
| 26 | And I was going to sell it to Harrods , it 's such an awful book , I really had decided to sell it to Harrods . |
| 27 | They are the more detestable for having temporarily lost their reason for existence : that is to say , shops full of a disastrous religious trinketry no longer have any customers to sell it to , and whole street-fuls of hotels and pensions are all of them closed until the following spring , making parts of the town seem gloomily abandoned . |
| 28 | He was going to sell it to some Jew . |
| 29 | He decided to sell it to the Americans who had bought the triptych . |
| 30 | This actually tests two things , the capabilities of the software itself and those of the dealer trying to sell it to you . |