Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] bought for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those were the days when a farm worker earned about thirty shillings a week , and three pounds was quite a good wage , so it is not surprising that a Saturday afternoon at the cinema cost tuppence , and four different sweets could be bought for a penny . |
| 2 | Choosing a penn'orth of sweets could be a long job : a gob-stopper , a liquorice wheel , liquorice rope , a chew , each could be bought for a farthing , and many boiled sweets and toffees were only tuppence a quarter . |
| 3 | Quite a number of things could be bought for a halfpenny — Barretts Sherbet Fountains with liquorice straws , Sherbet Dabs with their lump of toffee on a stick , Liquorice Ropes , Humbugs , Spearmint Lumps , Aniseed Balls were 20 for a penny . |
| 4 | Thus the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for a pound could be obtained by converting the pound to 100p and dividing by 17 . |
| 5 | The other day , when a new silver dinner service was commissioned for 10 Downing Street , I asked how much silver could be bought for a million pounds , which seemed a suitably round number . |