Example sentences of "buy [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN Mrs Norma Major first came to our attention , she was reported to either make her own clothes or buy them off the peg from John Lewis . |
| 2 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 3 | And although he is adamant that the hardware business will not be run down , he did say that in future the firm will carefully weigh up whether it is more more cost-effective to manufacture products and components itself or buy them on the open market . |
| 4 | Hire purchase — personal customers hire goods for an agreed length of time and buy them at the end of the period for a low price . |
| 5 | I in fact , half the rubber you , cos yo unless you order them and buy them like we used to buy them in some big packets but erm , you buy them in a shop , you buy them and they 've got teatles right across the middle have n't they ? |
| 6 | If you are not sure about identifying rocks , buy them from a knowledgeable dealer , or garden centre , who may also stock safe artificial rocks . |
| 7 | You buy them from the Nigel Press Associates of Edenbridge in Kent ; a print this size costs £60 . |
| 8 | When I buy them from the chemist , I pretend they 're for someone else . |
| 9 | One of the better ones at the moment are the with profits bonds , where you 're guaranteed a re returns , rather like an endowment , if you buy it as a single premium again . |
| 10 | You might think many people buy it as a coffee table book , but they do n't . |
| 11 | It remains only for you to locate one and buy it at a reasonable price . |
| 12 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |
| 13 | I bet they do n't dispense much of that now because most people buy it over the counter do n't they ? |
| 14 | Maggie Thatcher had told them to do , they have n't realized that owning your home like you know you buy it off the Council or things like that , it ends there , they 're forgetting the maintenance part of it you know |
| 15 | Buy it for a thousand or whatever . |
| 16 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe they buy it for the wrong reason ; they can get a lot of research they would otherwise not carry out . |
| 18 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 19 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe they buy it for the wrong reason ; they can get a lot of research they would otherwise not carry out . |
| 21 | Buy it in a bottle and you could be paying more than fifty times that . |
| 22 | I think for those of you who do n't live here , if you fancy a hot dog , you ca n't have onions with it if you buy it in the city centre , because the smell of cooking onions is banned . |