Example sentences of "buy [pron] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager has been quoted as saying that the parents who wore Pakamacs in the fifties and sixties will buy them for their children . |
| 2 | The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag . |
| 3 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 4 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 5 | You 'll have to buy them for your skiing trip . |
| 6 | Do you know what Shrimpy 's decided to buy me for my birthday ? |
| 7 | Cos my mum bought one for my dad |
| 8 | I set off to Khan Market to buy something for my headache , only to find the roads were clogged with white Ambassadors dressed up as Christmas trees . |
| 9 | We must go in the shop in the Pinge to buy something for my bunny . |
| 10 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 11 | He was planning on a shave and a slow , hot bath ; he might even throw in some of that stuff that Wayne had bought him for his birthday , that came in a dubious-looking novelty bottle shaped like a tiger 's head . |
| 12 | He says : we 're looking for a millionaire to buy it for his wife as the ideal shopping car . |
| 13 | Are these worth while as far as parents ' buying them for their children are concerned ? |
| 14 | ANIMATIONS New series of Wild Life images COMPUTERS Buying one for your machine GIFTS Some seasonable inspiration |
| 15 | Apart from Nora and the weirdos we 'd get people buying it for their girlfriends , as a laugh Some girls , those who were a bit more out there , would buy the rubber wear for themselves . |
| 16 | No she 's buying it for me birthday . |
| 17 | And Adrian bought me for my birthday erm |
| 18 | What bought you for your birthday |
| 19 | HAVING read in this space of a revolutionary new dog halter Philip Braithwaite bought one for his son 's birthday . |
| 20 | Jim Haywood , of Sandwell council 's environmental health department , said : ‘ The tortoises looked so lifelike that one of our officers bought one for his garden . ’ |
| 21 | And I bought one for my friend 's daughter for ten pounds . |
| 22 | People buy it for their gardens honestly . |
| 23 | I buy it for my whisky because . |