Sentences with phrase «placed under the hammer»

Sotheby's placed under the hammer the prestigious collection of Rachel «Bunny» Mellon on Monday night, the auction houses experts called the collection — of modern and contemporary works that spanned 400 years - «one of the last great private American collections formed in the 20th century.»

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Grey butler's pantry boasts grey cabinets topped with white marble fitted with a round hammered sink and satin nickel gooseneck faucet placed under a built - in wine rack flanked by glass - front cabinets lined with glass shelves filled with wine glasses.

Call Me By Your Name takes place somewhere in northern Italy at the start of the summer of 1983, when 17 - year - old Elio Perlman (Chalamet) meets American academic Oliver (Hammer), who is studying under Elio's college professor father while staying with the Perlmans at their villa for the season.

Around 1970, the educational - industrial complex, long under construction, was finally hammered into place.

2006 Spank The Monkey, Baltic, Gateshead, UK Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London, England Out of Place, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK Under Gods Hammer: William Blake versus David Shrigley, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Humor Me, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, USA David Shrigley & Peter Land, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Dear Friends, D.o.m.a.i.n.e. d.e. K.e.r.g.u.é.h.n.n.e.c, Centre d'art contemporain, Bignan, France Humour Me, Artspace Kansas City, USA The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Defamation of Character, MoMA PS1, New York, USA Old News, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

But still, calling the borrower and threating to break his legs to collect would get the hammer lowered on that seller under that Act, so would calling the borrower at work or calling friends or tracking him down in a public place.