Example sentences of "bought a [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | In no time , he 'd bought a second one for Liam in Milltown , and then a third in Warrenpoint and now Liam was just about to clinch a site in Newry . |
3 | On the other hand , here , as in other parts of the Pyrenees , those who are left are now being joined by others who have retired or who have bought a second home in the foothills . |
4 | Elsbeth Lindner , rebuilding Weidenfeld 's fiction list , has bought a first novel set in Civil War England and Puritan America which she hesitates , she says , to bill as ‘ a prequel to The Scarlet Letter ’ because it is ‘ very much a novel in its own right ’ . |
5 | But , always kind : " Well , Robert , dear fellow , " she crooned when he came back from the bar ( where he had bought a third bottle of champagne ) . |