Example sentences of "to buy [noun] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually he owned a greengrocery business which he then mortgaged to buy spoil heaps across the road from the gold mines , which had been there since mining began . |
| 2 | If you save every plastic container that comes into the house — margarine tubs , yoghurt pots — there is no need to buy plastic containers for the freezer or proper flowerpots . |
| 3 | Thus a modern Inuit village family may live in a small settlement of insulated timber housing , spend part of their time working for wages in government or private company employ , hunt caribou or seals for meat , and tend traplines for extra money to buy consumer goods from the store or mail-order catalogue . |
| 4 | But with the market price another 1p lower after Tuesday 's 7p fall , Hoare 's own market-makers were offering to buy Midland shares from the rest of the market at 362p or to sell at 367p . |
| 5 | As the £ dipped again on foreign exchange markets yesterday , the AA and travel agents advised Britons to buy travellers cheques in the local currency , take foreign money with them or use credit cards . |
| 6 | The League , which had already campaigned for nationwide non-payment of taxes , on Oct. 9 caused an further uproar by calling on small savers not to buy treasury bonds on the grounds that their money would be at risk . |