Example sentences of "buy for i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 2 | ‘ My duffle coat was bought for me in Manchester . |
| 3 | In my own family in India , often enough saris are bought for me by my father or mother . |
| 4 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 5 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |