Example sentences of "buy it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | SO next time you need washing powder , washing up liquid , shampoo , etc. do n't buy it at the supermarket ( they make enough profit already ! ) order it from me ( I order on Sundays to deliver the next Friday ) and LET NCT HAVE THE PROFITS … |
| 2 | Otherwise , it seems , we do n't buy it at all . |
| 3 | ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! ) |
| 4 | You can buy it at the delicatessen in Long Barton , you know . ’ |
| 5 | O M O V you ca n't buy it at the chemist it is n't a new type of bread for some religious festival it 's not a new cleaning detergent O M O V what is O M O V ? |
| 6 | mean they had to stop eventually , but they would n't buy it at all , no way |
| 7 | I think they can buy it at twenty eight . |
| 8 | Because it was deemed to have been lost in antiquity , the finder was allowed to keep it , although happily the British Museum was able to buy it at auction . |
| 9 | If you want a Rolls Royce , you should n't expect to buy it at Volkswagen prices . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 11 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
| 12 | Having , as a small boy , saved his pocket money to buy his mother a scarf for her birthday , he was sharply told to take it back : he had bought it at a Liberal shop . |
| 13 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 14 | No , no the shop could use it then as a as a loss leader he could make say , a penny on it an ge so if he buys it at , you 're buying what , thirty five ? |
| 15 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 16 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 17 | He bought it at a London auction — along with a bath used by Madonna in the film Shanghai Surprise — for his Planet Hollywood restaurant . |
| 18 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 19 | Pa bought it at Faversham market where the man gave it away for ten pounds . |
| 20 | ‘ The dining suite is Regency and we bought it at an auction in Bournemouth , ’ says Pauline . |
| 21 | I got it from I bought it at er Blooms . |
| 22 | Newley bought it at the Warton sale . |
| 23 | ‘ I bought it at Oxfam , ’ said Ellen , as if that excused everything . |
| 24 | We only bought it at car boot sale and there were bits missing . |
| 25 | At Easter time yes I bought it at Easter time |
| 26 | It remains only for you to locate one and buy it at a reasonable price . |
| 27 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |