Example sentences of "bought [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec Reid picked me up sharp at six , and gave an approving glance at my clean shirt , spotless white trousers ( bought off the peg in Sydney ) and the fact that I wore a tie . |
| 2 | This was partly due to the nature of the business , but partly because management bought off the threat of trouble with high wage settlements in the prosperous 1950s . |
| 3 | Moving swiftly on he coined the phrase ‘ objectware ’ to refer to the hundred or so third-party objects that can be bought off the shelf to run in the NeXT environment . |
| 4 | Some courses can be bought off the shelf as self-contained study packs . |
| 5 | Instead there has been something of a supermarket approach : according to the interests of the teacher a number of packages have been bought off the shelves and put in the course trolley . |
| 6 | In the early days of North Sea exploration , it was not unknown for project teams to phone Houston , Texas , for a box of bolts which could have been bought off the shelf at an ironmongers in Aberdeen . |
| 7 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 8 | The fourteen streamlined double-deckers were bought for the Squires Gate route in 1935 , on which they spent most of their working lives until its closure in 1961 . |
| 9 | A new flag was bought for the masthead and a scheme put in hand to cover part of the terraces . |
| 10 | The blanket ban on the publishers not only would have led to virtually nothing being bought for the borough 's libraries , but it would have denied the borough those titles which do serve the fight against racism . |
| 11 | They sold it , together with an earlier Forney model , two years later in October 1971 through the then well-known aircraft brokers W. S. Shackleton of Coventry , whence it was bought for the princely sum of £2,150 by airline captain David Vernon , who has owned it ever since . |
| 12 | The village hall was a disused chapel bought for the use of the village by Sir Godfrey MacDonald , the local squire at the time , to replace an earlier public hall which was destroyed during the war . |
| 13 | He would ‘ recommend a stronger transmitter be bought for the benefit of the rural areas ’ . |
| 14 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 15 | The private Bodmer collection in Geneva is now the home of what was the only surviving Russian example of the 1455 Gutenburg Bible , bought for the Imperial library in the middle of the last century . |
| 16 | The Jacobean table in the living/dining room has crossed the Atlantic twice and was originally bought for the thatched cottage in Hertfordshire . |
| 17 | Indeed , the ability of workers to work ( labour-power ) itself is a marketable commodity , bought for the least cost to be used at will by the capitalist . |
| 18 | Radio and television time was bought for the same purpose . |
| 19 | I was thinking of all I could have bought for the baby with fifty pounds . |
| 20 | Helmeted ambulancemen loaded casualties into an armoured Land Rover , bought for the purpose from the army . |
| 21 | Rildia Bee held court , charming and charmed , while Gisella Tect , baker extraordinaire , cut the wedding cake Van had bought for the party , as lovely as the wedding cakes he always has at parties for his mother , a wedding cake made , of course , by Gisella Tect herself . |
| 22 | A black feather boa , perhaps bought for the Black Ascot , curved lavishly round to cancel any suggestion of nakedness . |
| 23 | Except for the last Albanians in the Labour party , I do not believe that anyone seriously disputes that the process of competition is essential to maximise what is bought for the taxpayer . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , if he 's so decent , ’ said Amiss , as he donned the pyjamas he had specially bought for the purposes of room-sharing , ‘ why does he allow us to be fed so badly ? ’ |
| 25 | A desk is bought for the business for £100 paid for from the bank account . |
| 26 | There is no record of the history of this manuscript before it was bought for the British Museum in 1836 , but it appears possible that the Jouglet it contains could be one text forming a bridge between the French fabliaux and the Anglo-Norman . |
| 27 | This was the case in Ashington Piggeries Ltd v Christopher Hill Ltd ( 1972 ) where cattle food suitable for animals generally was bought for the particular purpose of being fed to mink which turned out to be poisonous to mink . |
| 28 | They 've been bought for the fact that all over the country there 's all these holes in the wall and people are putting up shelves , building furniture or whatever . |
| 29 | Reluctantly tearing herself away from Marc as they went to ready themselves for the ceremony later on , she changed rapidly into the coat-dress bought for the wedding , then did her face and piled up her hair . |
| 30 | Mr Mullan said he would discourage people from travelling to Dublin without tickets , but said there was a slight chance that some could be bought for the proper price outside Croke Park . |