Example sentences of "have bought " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOOD manufacturer Northern Foods has bought Bodfari Foods in a deal worth £20.7m . |
| 2 | He has bought me a drink . |
| 3 | BITBURGER , one of Germany 's biggest brewers , has bought a second brewery in East Germany and may sell its jet-black beer in Britain in 1992 . |
| 4 | Since then , Polygram has bought Island Records and has anounced the takeover of A&M records . |
| 5 | Laporte also announced yesterday that it has bought Woodtech , an independent supplier of wood treatment plants , and has spent £6.3m buying the speciality building products division of ICI Australia and two other minor operations . |
| 6 | UNILEVER , the Anglo-Dutch consumer products group , has bought the Boursin French Cheese Group for an undisclosed sum as a step in its campaign to exploit the underdeveloped ‘ branded ’ cheese market in the UK and Europe . |
| 7 | EIE has bought 446,000 square feet of offices in two blocks of 11 and 15 storeys which make up Britannic House West , built 10 years ago and close to the Bank of England . |
| 8 | AT THE Isleworth headquarters of Sky Television today , Rupert Murdoch will announce that in association with the BBC he has bought exclusive coverage of England 's cricket tour of the West Indies from an independent producer . |
| 9 | Page 30 NY cellular telephones : McCaw Cellular has bought the half stake owned in the New York cellular telephone franchise by Metromedia . |
| 10 | Moncreiffe Hill Wood in Perthshire , which the Woodland Trust has bought from the Forestry Commission . |
| 11 | The 333-acre wood , the largest the trust has bought in Scotland , opened this week , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 12 | FKB has bought Audio Visual Medical Marketing Inc and its associated companies Pharmaceutical Services International and Data Medical Communications , collectively known as AVMD . |
| 13 | HEYWOOD WILLIAMS , the aluminium and plastics company , has bought Gloster Plastics , window frame makers , for £2.8m , which could increase to £4.7m depending on profits . |
| 14 | This page and View from City Road , page 29 Wills factory bought : A consortium including developer Skillion and Peter Earl 's Tranwood Group , has bought the WD & HO Wills tobacco factory at Bedminster , Bristol , which covers 10 acres in the city . |
| 15 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 16 | News that an investor has bought a significant stake in any company is likely to lift that company 's share price . |
| 17 | Not that those considerations need worry Baggio , who has bought 52 stand tickets so that his entire family can watch him today . |
| 18 | It is debatable whether Sky for its part has bought a pig in a poke . |
| 19 | It is debatable whether Sky for its part has bought a pig in a poke . |
| 20 | Credit Lyonnaise , the French bank , has bought B&C 's remaining 29.85 per cent stake . |
| 21 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 22 | Paul Marchand MP on Edwina Currie No one has bought my silence ; no one ever could . |
| 23 | Since the Second World War , however , nearly every rich man , on making his fortune , has bought an old house and refurbished it in its period style . |
| 24 | Daimler-Benz , for example , has bought a large site on Potsdamer Platz , in the heart of the new Berlin . |
| 25 | Its introductory offers , plus a discount on long-distance telephone calls , have now been dropped , as the company seeks to wring profit out of the 9.8m cardholders it has bought itself . |
| 26 | It has bought a dud Utah thrift , MountainWest , which was already a Visa card-issuer . |
| 27 | Asea Brown Boveri , the Swedish-Swiss engineering group , has bought an electrical-equipment maker and plans joint projects with a score of other eastern firms . |
| 28 | For FFr100m ( $17.5m ) , American Express has bought a 2% stake in Club Méditerranée , a French group that ranks third among European tour operators , and runs holiday villages in exotic places . |
| 29 | ‘ Mum , Jamie 's dad has bought a retired Greyhound . |
| 30 | SOUTHERN Electricity has bought Thermal Transfer ( Holdings ) , an environmental control systems business with sales of more than £15m a year . |