Example sentences of "selling the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The champions refused to meet it after selling the 26-year-old to Blackburn for just £25,000 six years ago . |
| 2 | In this situation is Y a buyer and re-seller or is he merely X 's agent for selling the goods to Z ? |
| 3 | I 'd hate to think what you could get for selling the rights to tests in , say , a Southern Hemisphere Five Nations with South Africa and Argentina coming in . |
| 4 | A jump-seat capable of carrying a seventy-pound child was added as an optional extra , but Univair made only 42 aircraft in 1950 and seven in 1951 before selling the ATC to Forney Aircraft of Fort Collins , who changed the name to ‘ Aircoupe ’ , made a number of further modifications including fitting the Continental C–90 engine , built twelve , then changed the name yet again to the ‘ Fornaire ’ , 82 being made under that identification . |
| 5 | In the human world , potential dangers range from the non-kinsmen and non-band members whose intentions can never be known with certainty , to the homicidal mai kahnoh kuui — ‘ the cutting-off-head-strangers ’ — who are believed to lurk along forest paths to decapitate the unwary , selling the heads to lowland Malays for ritual purposes . |
| 6 | Estimates that creating the Fsx would cost only ¥165 billion ( at 1985 prices ) were good for nothing more than selling the project to parliament which had to vote the money . |
| 7 | John Tyzack provided for his comfortable retirement in Oxford by selling the business to Henderson Administration , the well-known investment trust . |
| 8 | The rogue posed as Mr. Lewis in selling the car to Averay , an innocent purchaser . |