Example sentences of "[vb past] been buy at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of flight , the companionship of joy and dream had been bought at too high a price . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ They admitted having Ecstasy which had been bought at rave parties . |
| 3 | The man 's brown tricorne hat had come from neither the French nor the British army , but had been bought at the market in the Norman town of Caen . |
| 4 | The agreements with the United States had been bought at the cost of disproportionate cuts in Soviet weaponry and were clearly dictated by the need to reduce military spending , a much heavier relative burden for the USSR than for the United States . |
| 5 | And that support had been bought at the cost of considerably increasing the budget . |
| 6 | Shop fittings which were worth £3,000 and had been bought at an auction by Transom Trading for only £1,500 prior to opening the shop in August 1991 . |
| 7 | The meat , which is part of the EC 's deep-frozen beef mountain , had been bought at low prices by food-processing firms . |