Example sentences of "to buy the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What used to annoy me about that shop was that , that the fact that you know people used to buy the things on the never- never |
| 2 | CRL attempted to buy the rights to the film and were refused point-blank . |
| 3 | It also sunk £255,000 into a joint vent-ure , Sherwood International Ltd ( CI No 2,114 ) , to buy the rights for the Informix-based life assurance system , Palace , from Beta Computers ( Europe ) Ltd . |
| 4 | I used to buy the shuttlecocks in the town toy and sports shop and cut the rubber end off , then squeeze the protesting guinea-pig ( I did use one once , just on principle , but as a rule they were too expensive and a little too big ) up through the funnel of plastic until it sat round their waist like a little dress . |
| 5 | In Helby v Matthews [ 1895 ] AC 471 , the House of Lords decided that a hirer under a hire purchase agreement who was entitled to terminate the hiring agreement at any time , was not a person who had agreed to buy the goods within the meaning of s9 of FA 1889 , so confirming the nemo dat rule ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 6 | The intention of a predator ( as with British Coal Pension Fund ) is to buy the shares of the investment trust at a premium to market prices ( to induce investors to sell ) but still at a discount to NAV . |