Object

• ticket: Sell the raffle tickets to passers by at your ' send-off ' party to squeeze some last minute cash out of the public.

• alcohol: At present any landlord has of course to have a license to sell alcohol.

• product: I was thinking of doing test run or would I be more likely to sell finished product!

• property: Only the estate agent who sells the property will be entitled to a commission.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• on: He buys a load of scrap iron to sell on, but gets conned.

Preposition: by

• auction: On the completion of their contract my father received instructions to sell by public auction the whole of their plant.

Preposition: over

• copy: The latest edition of the paper has sold over 8,500 copies.

Preposition: into

• slavery: There were hundreds of thousands of Scots sold into slavery during Colonial America.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: The vacant site was then sold off for the construction of prestige housing.

• out: People who talk about being totally sold out to Jesus don't realize the depths of their sin or the holiness of God.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: Cawlett sold off the Smith business in 1994 to a Plymouth businessman called Rimmer.

Subject

• auction: The freehold estate of Monk's Risbridge and Barnardiston was sold by auction.

Preposition: in

• supermarket: Almost all food sold in supermarkets is transported to distribution depots around the country before being distributed back to supermarkets.

Preposition: for

• scrap: In 1961 she was sold for scrap after a working life of 86 years.