Example sentences of "to buy [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm They do n't like them to buy copies of the school reading scheme and keep it at home and go through it book by book , that they feel is encroaching on their professionalism . |
| 2 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 3 | The real issue was protecting personal freedom ( of incomers ) to buy properties on the free-market . |
| 4 | The majority of payments were too small to replace the income lost from earnings and , therefore , were used to supplement other income , to buy goods for the home or saved for emergencies . |
| 5 | Sterling fell heavily in Tokyo overnight and slumped to a record low of Dm2.3235 soon after UK trading began , compelling the Bank to intervene to buy pounds on the currency markets and the Chancellor to make a statement echoing the overnight comments by Eddie George , and ruling out another cut in UK interest rates soon . |
| 6 | He was really going to buy cigars at the shop next door , but I saw the sugar mice in the window and he could n't get me away until he came in and bought some . |
| 7 | But we mostly seemed to buy toys on the way somewhere to do something else . |
| 8 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |
| 9 | In 1984 , it was perfectly possible to buy tickets on the morning of the Grand Slam decider with France . |
| 10 | So she crammed six big fellers into her front room , sat them down with rum and blankets , and the whole bunch snuggled up like they were queueing all night to buy tickets for the Test Match . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyone who comes to our office at Windsor Avenue between now and Wednesday will be able to register to buy tickets for the Republic match ’ he said . |
| 12 | His sister had been restless and Dunbar had had to fight queues of people at the bar to buy drinks in the interval . |
| 13 | People would walk up a line to buy flowers in the summer , ’ she added . |
| 14 | It was still possible in early 1922 to buy foodstuffs in the city markets if one had the money . |
| 15 | I 've given up trying to buy stamps from the Post Office — again because the queues are so long — and I now get them in books from my newsagent . |
| 16 | The 22 foreign financial institutions licensed since September to buy shares on Indian stock markets will be eligible to buy shares in the company . |
| 17 | That is not necessarily so in relation to the few surviving companies limited by guarantee and having a share capital.z And there is no inherent reason why it should be so with companies limited by shares ; indeed a very sensible method of promoting voluntary ‘ co-determination ’ would be to provide means whereby employees could become members without also having to buy shares in the company , thus risking the loss of their savings as well as their jobs if their employer-company becomes insolvent . |
| 18 | The column reportedly reveals that Mirror chief executive David Montgomery and other senior staff hold options to buy shares in the newspaper group which could make them hundreds of thousands of pounds ' worth of profits . |
| 19 | As for direct exposure to the stock market , the advice of Malcolm Roberts of Montague Fleming is : ‘ It would not be advisable to buy shares in the name of a child under 16 . |
| 20 | As for direct exposure to the stock market , the advice of Malcolm Roberts of Montague Fleming is : ‘ It would not be advisable to buy shares in the name of a child under 16 . |
| 21 | As for direct exposure to the stock market , the advice of Malcolm Roberts of Montague Fleming is : ‘ It would not be advisable to buy shares in the name of a child under 16 . |
| 22 | I promised to buy shares in the brewery to make up for it . |