Example sentences of "recently bought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kingfisher runs 307 Comet outlets and has recently bought Laskys . |
| 2 | They were recently bought and reinstated by the present owners of Waddon . |
| 3 | Chrysalis , a record-and-documentary producer , recently bought Red Rooster , an independent drama-maker . |
| 4 | The French and the Italians had ICL — the Britain-based computer maker recently bought by Fujitsu — thrown out of a number of collaborative projects financed by the Community . |
| 5 | We have recently bought a Golden Retriever puppy bitch . |
| 6 | The numbers in the 45–64 year bracket are probably accentuated by part-time farmers who had recently bought a small farm either for early retirement or to invest redundancy money . |
| 7 | I have recently bought a 1980 LWB Stage One V8 . |
| 8 | It sounds as if your engine may have glazed bores and too much crank case pressure if the cap is blowing off I suggest you have a compression check I do not know of an auxiliary tank for a Ninety Indeed , I have the same problem as yourself I 'm a newcomer to Land Rover and recently bought a 1975 Series III88 inch . |
| 9 | Most of my friends will buy this album and we usually waste a lot of time discussing the merits of whatever record we have recently bought , so we may well have a few arguments on whether to eat meat or not . |
| 10 | They also decided that two Albanians who had recently bought land in Zakuti should be boycotted , and that they should not be accepted as residents of the village ( Borba , 18 June 1986 ) . |
| 11 | Market research companies will , of course , undertake to survey special groups of almost any kind , but the costs of finding , for example , people who have recently bought double-glazing or read romantic novels can be very high . |
| 12 | In this field the first ‘ acetate ’ made by The Beatles was recently bought back by Paul McCartney , reportedly for £10,000 . |
| 13 | He has recently bought and shipped to the UK one of the rare remaining Mooney M10 Cadets , which he flew solo from Los Angeles to Miami , the 2,267 nm journey taking almost two weeks . |
| 14 | I have recently bought five , but I do n't know the Latin name . |
| 15 | Dear Doctor I have recently bought a 1986 Fender Contemporary Tele , featuring two single coils ( Strat-style ) and a standard humbucker ( with 6 non-adjustable pole pieces and 6 adjustables ) plus individual pickup selection via three mini switches . |
| 16 | The recently bought simulators will be used to teach pilots from Virgin and other airlines who might otherwise have to spend thousands for training from American companies . |
| 17 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 18 | In the main survey , only one per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had difficulty making payments — because of illness , unemployment , or other unforeseen financial demands . |
| 19 | In our main 1979 survey , people were asked without prompting to say why they had recently bought on credit rather than paid cash . |
| 20 | In the main survey ( Appendix 1 , comments on Table 24 ; and more detailed cross-tabulations not included in Appendix ) , only three per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had had any problems with their credit arrangement , after buying ( nearly half the problems were difficulties over paying , and problems which people thought were the fault of the credit firm were very rare indeed ) . |
| 21 | Restoration is certainly not a problem in the case of an extraordinary painting by Peter Paul Rubens recently bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum . |
| 22 | Recently bought by a dealer for £5,000 in a local auction , it sold at Christie 's on 1 April for £34,000 ( $51,000 ; est. £10,000–15,000 ) , bought by a private art consultant , underbid by Blairman |
| 23 | Much of it was of the Louis XIV period ( which has a much more limited market than Louis XVI furniture ) , and in contrast to the freshness of the Patiño lots , had mostly been recently bought at high prices . |
| 24 | That phrase always makes me smile because er my wife recently bought a pair of tights with three legs in the tights . |
| 25 | I have recently bought a Panasonic KX-P1124i to use with MS Works on my computer . |
| 26 | When we said Cumbria , she said she knew the area as friend had recently bought a cottage in a tiny village there . |
| 27 | The decision coincided with reports that at least four Cornish skippers had recently bought drift nets of up to four miles long . |
| 28 | David Fairfax was proud of the estate and mansion he had so recently bought . |
| 29 | The driver of the car was today named as Jason Penter , ( 24 ) of Keymer Court , Burgess Hill , West Sussex , who had only recently bought the BMW . |
| 30 | A controlling interest was recently bought by Mr Harold Usherwood and Mr Paul Thompson , formerly of Crossley builders ' merchants . |