Example sentences of "he [vb mod] to buy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing very dramatic here , then , but at least he was in the buying and selling game , not a wage slave , and there can hardly have been a time when it was not easier to sell the odd pork chop or two than it was to convince an employer that he ought to buy your skills as a craftsman . |
| 2 | ‘ He used to buy slimming magazines for me and put them in my bag , ’ remembers Victoria , who lives in Manchester . |
| 3 | He used to buy in a lot of delicacies to pretend to his family that Gina could cook . |
| 4 | Instead , Wilby left the Midland Bank in Barnsley with a £2,500 cheque account , which he used to buy a car . |
| 5 | But he used to buy them and send them down home by train , and we used to cart them by horse and cart from the station . |
| 6 | But Sir Emmanuel was good in other ways and he used to buy our wool at a fair price . |
| 7 | and er he used to , he had a contract with some big potato firm and he used to buy all the , the fertilizer bags in the locality and he used to bring them there to the end of the road and he used to wash them in the burn . |
| 8 | And er he used to go there for meat but he used to buy two lots , one for his o his own place and one for the farm he had you see . |
| 9 | He used to buy two lots of things . |
| 10 | Yes oh yes and er he used to buy some bullocks from Mr Ro Mr La from Upware . |
| 11 | He used to buy them . |
| 12 | He used to buy them in Reading . |
| 13 | He used to buy them in Reading . |
| 14 | He used to buy them ? |