Example sentences of "to buy [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The real issue was protecting personal freedom ( of incomers ) to buy properties on the free-market . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Conversely , if the Bank of England wishes to expand the money supply , it will instruct its broker to buy securities on the open market and will pay for them with cheques drawn on itself . |
| 7 | But we mostly seemed to buy toys on the way somewhere to do something else . |
| 8 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |
| 9 | In 1984 , it was perfectly possible to buy tickets on the morning of the Grand Slam decider with France . |
| 10 | Equally a Dutch investor wishing to buy shares on the London Stock Exchange needs to turn Dutch guilders into pounds sterling . |