Example sentences of "buy [pers pn] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 2 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
| 3 | Having , as a small boy , saved his pocket money to buy his mother a scarf for her birthday , he was sharply told to take it back : he had bought it at a Liberal shop . |
| 4 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 5 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 6 | They bought them at a substantial discount . |
| 7 | He bought it at a London auction — along with a bath used by Madonna in the film Shanghai Surprise — for his Planet Hollywood restaurant . |
| 8 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 9 | It remains only for you to locate one and buy it at a reasonable price . |