Example sentences of "buy it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 2 | Where a book might originally sell at £15 , Smith might buy it for £1.50 and sell it at £5.50 — a profit was turned , and the public benefited . |
| 3 | Well , Lloyd 's of London can buy it for me . |
| 4 | What did 'e buy it for if 'e did n't want it ? |
| 5 | ‘ No , you did n't buy it for me . |
| 6 | it 's funny cos I just I thought ooh , I 'll buy it for her cos you know she does n't |
| 7 | The birth his birthday was twenty four months , that means from when you can buy it for a new born baby or somebody up to two years old , will be suitable for it . |
| 8 | You could buy it for fifty ! |
| 9 | I do n't really get pocket money but if I see something in the shops in , in , this toy or something my mum , mum 'll buy it for me and say that 's your pocket money for this week . |
| 10 | I would n't buy it for four hundred . |
| 11 | How much does he buy it for , he got , he buys it from the market . |
| 12 | He predicts that , within two years or so , people will be able to buy it for the price of a cheap piano . |
| 13 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 14 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 15 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 16 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 17 | Who to buy it for : theatrical types |
| 18 | Who to buy it for : morbid Erasure fans |
| 19 | Who to buy it for : women who love women |
| 20 | Who to buy it for : Kennedy-era obsessives |
| 21 | Who to buy it for : Sandra Bernhard ( except she 's got a copy already ) ! |
| 22 | Who to buy it for : clever people |
| 23 | Who to buy it for : people with pierced nipples |
| 24 | Who to buy it for : intellectuals who secretly read thrillers |
| 25 | Who to buy it for : Morrissey ( OK , Madonna then ) |
| 26 | Who to buy it for : Shakespears Sister fans |
| 27 | Conservationists and locals fear for the future of the island and a trust has been set up to raise money to buy it for the nation . |
| 28 | Another scale of wholesale charges for unused equipment is also useful for people who like a particular product so much that they genuinely want to buy it for themselves , albeit at a preferential rate . |
| 29 | He offers to buy it for £1,000 . |
| 30 | Erm very extensive business park development took place , land values on these industrial areas rose accordingly and all manufacturing uses were either er destabilized because their land values now became greater than the businesses that were on them , or new manufacturing plant simply could not acquire the land at affordable prices because there were always people willing to buy it for B one . |