Example sentences of "'s on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's 9 December sale totalled £10.8 million with premium , 63% sold by lot , 73.8% by value , Christie 's on 11 December £14.9 million with premium , 67.4% by lot , 83% by value . |
| 2 | Of the oils , four are currently on loan to MoMA including ‘ L'Asie ’ from the collection of the Mollie Parnis Livingston , which made $10 million at Sotheby 's on 10 November ( bought by the Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth ) and ‘ Harmonie jaune ’ which achieved a new world record for a work by the artist at Christie 's on 11 November , selling for $13.2 million against an estimate of $5–7 million . |
| 3 | Recently bought by a dealer for £5,000 in a local auction , it sold at Christie 's on 1 April for £34,000 ( $51,000 ; est. £10,000–15,000 ) , bought by a private art consultant , underbid by Blairman |
| 4 | The Continental ceramics sales at Christie 's and Sotheby 's on 1 March and 2 March continued to demonstrate the basic soundness and stability of this field . |
| 5 | After an elegant supper given by the Racing and Breeding Fine Arts Fund at Christie 's on 1 June , forty ‘ Colourmasters ’ were auctioned , raising in total £128,000 in aid of more than thirty charities including Racing Welfare , the Equine Fertility Endowment Appeal , the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind , Crusaid and the Multiple Sclerosis Society . |
| 6 | He left his pictures to his nephew , Thomas Hankey of Bedford Square : these were sold at Christie 's on 7–8 June 1799 . |
| 7 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 8 | Those who fecklessly pay huge sums for grimy canvases would be wise to study the results of the Dr Carlo Croce collection at Christie 's on 14 January . |
| 9 | George Costakis owns the world 's most distinguished private collection of Russian avant-garde art , and 22 important works from it are being offered for sale at Sotheby 's on 4 April . |
| 10 | The sale of Modern British art at Sotheby 's on 4 November included a surprising number of notable works and attracted a large audience . |
| 11 | No 5029 Renown approaches Exeter Central station with the 09.15 Waterloo to Exeter St David 's on 17 August 1989 . |
| 12 | So she 's on eighteen pound , they 'll owe say eighty pound a week rent . |
| 13 | ‘ What you seem to forget is that it 's on sixteen years since you left this house . |
| 14 | George de la Tour 's ‘ Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player ’ , bought by Agnew 's at Christie 's on 13 December for £1,870,000 , is to join the collection at the Prado . |
| 15 | At the Victorian picture sales at Sotheby 's on 12 November and Christie 's on 13 November , buyers tended to stay away from works which had been on the market in recent years . |
| 16 | So whi what I 'm trying to say to you is that you should have four sides of written text , whether it 's on two pages , three or four What I will do is go through the headings and give you a very brief description of that so that you know roughly what 's in them . |
| 17 | Do you want to borrow , well it 's on two tapes , well I 've still got it on the tapes if you want it , it 's quite a good quite a good film |
| 18 | It 's on two tapes . |
| 19 | Put this year 's on one pile . |
| 20 | I know the station 's on one side , cos there 's light coming from there , so I go back that way . |
| 21 | The important ninth-century Anglo-Saxon jewel found on a beach in Dorset in 1990 and sold at Sotheby 's on 10 December ( see p. 24 ) is a case in point . |
| 22 | The so-called Trausnitz Venus , which was offered for sale at Christie 's on 10 December but failed to raise a single bid , has now been bought by the National Gallery in Washington . |
| 23 | Of the oils , four are currently on loan to MoMA including ‘ L'Asie ’ from the collection of the Mollie Parnis Livingston , which made $10 million at Sotheby 's on 10 November ( bought by the Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth ) and ‘ Harmonie jaune ’ which achieved a new world record for a work by the artist at Christie 's on 11 November , selling for $13.2 million against an estimate of $5–7 million . |
| 24 | The Everhart Museum of Scranton , Pennsylvania , has asked the Orphan 's Court for permission to sell Matisse 's ‘ Pink Shrimp ’ ( est. $3–4 million ) , now on view at the MoMA retrospective , at Sotheby 's on 10 November , in order to fund an endowment for operating costs and acquisitions . |
| 25 | The most important oil painting by Goya to appear on the market for two decades will be offered at Sotheby 's on 9 December . |
| 26 | Continental ceramics including Meissen Porcelain from the Korthaus Collection at Christie 's on 21 September produced good results despite the high estimates . |
| 27 | Christie 's on 15 April will be offering the first part of one of the most famous private armouries ( or Gewehrkammer ) to remain in Germany . |
| 28 | This was bought-in at £6 million at Christie 's on 15 April , largely because the estimate was considered to be too high for what one expert commented was ‘ an early , dark , Leyden-period picture , which is at variance with what people want and expect in Rembrandt . |
| 29 | Sotheby 's on 29 October featured a brace of Bouguereaus , of which the best was ‘ Le Coquillage ’ , of a mother placing a shell to the ear of her winsome blonde daughter . |
| 30 | It 's on ten minutes . |