Sentence examples for auction for it from inspiring English sources

And he had helped sell Mr. Flanagan's book to the prestigious publishers Berlin Verlag in Germany and Tammi in Finland and to start an auction for it in Spain.

Such a sale has never been attempted before.In this section The shark's last move Rugby's role in his rise Laughter and music Big brains and a hairy chest His master's voice Reprints Related items Royalties on art: Sharing the wealthJul 3rd 2008 Art.view: For the love of GodAug 25th 2007Only the brave sell at auction, for it is impossible to control who buys or what price they will pay.

But he had sold Mr. McDonell's book in Italy and started auctions for it in Germany and the Netherlands.

A bottle of 60-year-old Macallan sold last year at auction for $1.1 million; it was priced at $27,000 after it was bottled in 1986.

He bought an old map at a furniture auction for $800, thinking it was a Native American piece.

Mr Blavatnik will be paying about $3bn if he wins the auction for Warner and it is easy to see why he was the favourite from the outset.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google had little desire to own a premium slice of the nation's airwaves, but a week into a federal auction for wireless licenses, it found itself at risk of being the winning bidder for the coveted spectrum.

PJM ran the auction for the grids it operates in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio and northern Illinois.

When the SEC sued Salomon Brothers in 1992 over illegal bidding in Treasury auctions, for example, it didn't stop with the trader, Paul Mozer.

An anonymous buyer bought it at a 1998 auction for $2 million and entrusted it to a Baltimore gallery.

Instead, he persuaded the owner to put the horn up for auction, and it sold for 300,000 Swiss francs in March 2011.