Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] can buy a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Draw these parts separately on to a piece of strong wrapping paper or thin card , or you can buy a special waxed fabric like the waxed linen our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used for making braid , Irish crochet lace or the genuine fine needlepoint laces . |
| 2 | Either she pays her rent or she can buy a property and pay £500 a month mortgage . |
| 3 | It is very rare that you can buy a dog good enough to used at stud . |
| 4 | What it did prove , emphatically , is that you can buy a car which will out-handle any Ferrari , out-accelerate the most powerful Porsche to way past licence-losing speed and provide more safe fun than anyone who has n't driven one could possibly imagine . |
| 5 | It remains factually correct that you can buy a coffin direct from the undertakers . |
| 6 | ‘ The great thing about Chipie is that you can buy a whole look , or just buy a T-shirt , ’ says Neil Prosser . |
| 7 | I guess that 's fairly unusual , because travel agents in the past have n't spent money saying you can book a holiday at your travel agent , but erm we 've had a pretty high spend and backed up by window point of serve , so we have messages in our shop windows that you can buy a British holiday at Lunn Poly . |
| 8 | If you are short of cash , club together with brothers and sisters and combine your money so you can buy a present between you . |
| 9 | I mean if I can buy a bloody bargain I 'll buy it . |
| 10 | He 's valued at £4.5m and you can buy a team for that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The delay has cost £20,000 and we can buy a gold door to replace it for less than that . ’ |
| 12 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 13 | There 's no point in going through that trauma unless you can buy a better service . |
| 14 | Just because you can buy a scanner which will capture photographs and drawings does n't mean that it is necessarily the best way . |
| 15 | While you can buy a 50p leaflet and walk round the town yourself , looking for the small metal footsteps that have been placed in significant sites , it 's much more rewarding to go with one of the town 's Cadfael experts , like Esme Green . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's the point of that when you can buy a calculator ? ’ |