Example sentences of "bought [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bought them at a substantial discount . |
| 2 | Branson bought them at an auction which inflated the group 's price far beyond its true value . |
| 3 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 4 | He bought it at a London auction — along with a bath used by Madonna in the film Shanghai Surprise — for his Planet Hollywood restaurant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The dining suite is Regency and we bought it at an auction in Bournemouth , ’ says Pauline . |
| 7 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 8 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 9 | Yeah I know , you bought it with a jug of water |
| 10 | She bought it as a gift on my last trip to the UK . |
| 11 | ‘ I bought it as a deposit on another car and went on this journey for a reason , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Yes , er , we put that on as a , we bought it as a do it yourself job . |
| 13 | In fact it was you I think who stopped me from pulling it up , I bought it as a , a stick from Bromley , in Bromley |
| 14 | I think she bought it as an investment and wants to sell . |
| 15 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
| 16 | I bought it in a jar and it was it was funny at the poppy actually and they said |
| 17 | Minton bought it from a friend , the painter David Bevan , whose wife had recently committed suicide , and this fact , so Minton told George Barker , had influenced his decision to acquire it . |
| 18 | ‘ Mother bought it from a man who came to the door to sell things . |
| 19 | He bought it from a chap called John Dowson , who later married one of the Miss Sayers from West New Houses . |