Example sentences of "to buy [det] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 2 | We need physical and psychological security , and we need money to buy these things . |
| 3 | ‘ Because the last voyage made no profit , Princess wo n't go to sea again until more money can be found to buy all things needful for a fresh voyage . |
| 4 | Well , in theory up to an extent you are the answer which means that we have to buy less things , eat less , and , because we are you know that , I mean , I mean n I do n't want to , I mean I 'm not talking to anyone in particular , but we have a lot of very very big people and . |
| 5 | He 's gone into Lewes to buy more things for the room . |