Example sentences of "to buy [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a clever woman with obscure sources of energy who would suddenly start to garden by torchlight late at night , or walk wilfully all the way to Soho to buy vegetables at the times when the pin in her hipbone was especially painful . |
| 2 | erm They do n't like them to buy copies of the school reading scheme and keep it at home and go through it book by book , that they feel is encroaching on their professionalism . |
| 3 | Ellen Galford joins the queues in Scotland to buy heritage over the counter |
| 4 | Miloš used these funds to buy estates from the Turks , and then he transferred them either into his own hands or into those of his Serbian friends . |
| 5 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 6 | All the time he and Rufus were living it up , driving about the countryside in Goblander , driving to London once to buy marijuana from the dealer Rufus knew in Notting Hill , drinking and smoking ( as he had put it ) Hilbert 's furniture away , all that time Vivien and her boyfriend Shiva were making arrangements to join Ecalpemos . |
| 7 | In a housing project car park , we watched as a white Cadillac stretch limousine pulled up to buy cocaine from the barrio kids , while Los Angeles 's contribution to the economy of the underclass . |
| 8 | The Jade fund to buy equipment for the special care baby unit has so far raised three thousand pounds |
| 9 | Other recipients are : Raybee Credit Union , Hartlepool , £800 , for office furniture and equipment ; Thornaby Impasse , £620 , to buy equipment for the centre ; Outreach Advice and Advocacy Service , Thornaby , £3,935 , towards the cost of providing advice sessions . |
| 10 | Money raised is used to buy equipment for the playgroup , provide other things we need regularly , and give the children small gifts at Easter and Christmas . |
| 11 | The Purey Cust Trust and Medical Insurance Agency will together present cheques totalling £5,000 tomorrow to buy equipment for the York Diabetic Centre . |
| 12 | The money was used to buy equipment for the garden . |
| 13 | The illusion of success was maintained only because the group 's high share price enabled it to buy companies on the cheap and so keep pushing up total profits and earnings per share . |
| 14 | But even in those circumstances the new rules hopefully should make sure that it is more difficult for managements to buy companies on the cheap from under the noses of their shareholders . |
| 15 | ‘ A visit has the added advantage of people being able to buy ware from the visitor centre shop or our ‘ seconds ’ shop which has a selection of Wedgwood Group products for sale at reduced prices . ’ |
| 16 | The agency believes that investors will refuse to buy plants in the polluted region if they will also have to pay for cleaning up the environment . |
| 17 | Colin and Eamon Meehan claimed that they were not guilty of trying to buy weapons in the US for the Provisional IRA because their internment by the British in the 1970s drove them insane . |
| 18 | Continued financial pressure on the NHS has led many authorities to reduce their long stay provision or to buy places within the private sector , which are often cheaper than their own beds . |
| 19 | We have no money to buy dressings for the wounded . |
| 20 | The real issue was protecting personal freedom ( of incomers ) to buy properties on the free-market . |
| 21 | On March 22nd , Ito-Yokado , a Japanese retailing giant , and its subsidiary , 7-Eleven Japan , offered to buy 75% of the company . |
| 22 | The majority of payments were too small to replace the income lost from earnings and , therefore , were used to supplement other income , to buy goods for the home or saved for emergencies . |
| 23 | Mitel Corp , Kanata , Ontario is to offer 21.95m common shares at the equivalent of $1.60 a share in Canada Four entities advised by Schroder Ventures , the international venture capital and buyout affiliate of Schroders Plc , intend to buy 4.88m of the shares . |
| 24 | Sterling fell heavily in Tokyo overnight and slumped to a record low of Dm2.3235 soon after UK trading began , compelling the Bank to intervene to buy pounds on the currency markets and the Chancellor to make a statement echoing the overnight comments by Eddie George , and ruling out another cut in UK interest rates soon . |
| 25 | By a curious coincidence , this month you have two chances to buy depictions of the Grand-ducal coronet of Tuscany destroyed during the Napoleonic invasions . |
| 26 | Stealing the money , Chubei is able to buy Umegawa from the clutches of a wealthier rival . |
| 27 | Yet it would be quite proper , and indeed is necessary , for non-scientists to have views about whether or not to buy meat for the coming weekend . |
| 28 | * Try to buy Cheddar on the rind — it makes a tremendous difference to the flavour ( like cooking meat on the bone ) , and instantly shows that the cheese has been cut from a truckle and not from a block . |
| 29 | He was really going to buy cigars at the shop next door , but I saw the sugar mice in the window and he could n't get me away until he came in and bought some . |
| 30 | The Australian Wool Corporation , which controls wool marketing down under , lowered its floor price by 20% because of falling demand , but still had to buy 70% of the wool on sale at auction each week . |