He hung around artists, organized exhibitions, and bought and ran a billiards hall and bar. |
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She bought a house with a big yard so that she could indulge her passion for gardening. |
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Ten years ago I bought a catastrophic policy for even less than that, despite an autoimmune disease and raging asthma. |
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Money has clearly never bought Choe happiness, and happiness seems to be of little interest to him anyhow. |
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The night before he bought a lot of crack-cocaine on credit with no way to pay, intending to kill himself after smoking. |
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By a curious coincidence, they bought a house the same day their old one burned down. |
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In the fall of 2010, it bought an anaerobic digestion project then under construction in London, Ontario. |
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She had just bought the phone a month before, after turning in her blackberry. |
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He had bought the shotgun only that weekend after deciding against an AR-15 assault rifle because of the waiting period. |
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So the next day I went out and I bought a microwave oven and I made an artichoke in the microwave. |
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Sulzberger was the grandson of adolph Ochs, who bought the Times in 1896 and turned it into a leading American paper. |
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Boston's "Cradle of Liberty" is only steps from sites where enslaved Africans were bought and sold after traveling the Middle Passage from West Africa to North America. |
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Americans bought 1.5 billion cans of tuna last year, according to ac Nielsen data. |
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Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman. |
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He stopped at the store on the way home and bought two whole chickens, and some bisquick and found a farm stand that had sweet corn. |
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She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her. |
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On a Saturday afternoon, my wife bought her favorite treat for dessert that evening, a gourmet, nut-filled brownie. |
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I was a very good radio operator. I bought my own bug. That's what the telegraph key in its modern form was called. It was semiautomatic. |
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The grass was so green that it looked like the artificial Easter bunny grass that Dory had bought each year to fill her children's baskets with. |
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You've got to understand this is what Stockman is proposing. The president hasn't bought off on it yet. |
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He later bought a '33 Ford coupe, chopped and channeled it and installed a Mercury engine. |
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Not many people in France bought the little five-chaptered book, but a number of copies were sold in Germany. |
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The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. |
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He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away. |
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In 1895, the Barries bought a house on Gloucester Road, in South Kensington. |
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Frank you are bought and paid for. Bought and paid for. You are here to do what I say when I say it. |
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We completely depleted our life savings when we bought our new house. |
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The government will pay you interest when it redeems the bonds you bought. |
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I finally pulled into a 7-11 store and bought a bottle of mouthwash so we could both rinse our mouths out. |
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We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house. |
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And deputies from opposing parties, inherently more antagonistic than deputies from the same party, can be bought at a lower price. |
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I bought the car as is, so the seller was within his legal rights to refuse to repair it when it broke down after two days. |
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Since you've bought this book and intend to make a will, I won't badger you with dire warnings about what would happen if you die without a will. |
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Emil bought a bare-bones rig and a new CPU at the computer show, then popped in his old hard drive. |
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Without these deprivations we would have missed the exquisite pleasure of a Spam barmcake, bought at a local cafe on pay day. |
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When upgrading her computer she bought a new base unit but kept the screen, keyboard and mouse. |
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I had previously bought a bright red betta fish from the Chinese spiritual store, which I also sense had been sent for Aurayah. |
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Holding money became profitable as prices dropped lower and a given amount of money bought ever more goods, exacerbating the drop in demand. |
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The Model House stood empty for many years before being bought by the local authority to convert into a craft and design centre. |
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The County Council bought the buildings in 1926 and used part of them for offices, the county archives, and the town library. |
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Lord Thomas Bulkeley bought Beaumaris from the Crown in 1807, incorporating it into the park that surrounded his local residence. |
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There he bought a copy of The Communist Manifesto and read Karl Marx for the first time. |
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He convinced the shipowner who had bought his Royal Academy picture to let him sail on a freighter to Istanbul. |
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Before he lost to Leonard in 1917, Welsh bought a farm on Long Hill in Chatham Township, New Jersey. |
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Her bakery had previously supplied British supermarket chain Safeway with bara brith, before it was bought out by Morrisons. |
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In July 2010, Jenkins was reported to have bought a house with TV presenter Gethin Jones. |
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When he was eight an aunt bought him a magic set and he spent hours perfecting the tricks. |
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Eventually, the 5 hectare site was bought by the City and the group worked together to restore the area. |
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The first year after we bought the house, we lived on a shoestring, but we survived. |
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The islands were bought in 1856 by the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, which later became known as the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. |
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When someone has bought their first house, they are said to have got on the ladder. |
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Their hides can be used for subsistence purposes, kept as hunting trophies, or can be bought in markets. |
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The service will use the newly bought Siemens Velaro trainsets and will also call at Brussels, Antwerp, and Rotterdam. |
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On the contrary, wealthy merchants bought themselves into the nobility by becoming landowners and acquiring a coat of arms and a seal. |
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These quotas can be fished, bought, sold, or leased allowing for the least cost vessels to be used. |
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After lying empty for over 80 years, it was bought in 2003 by an English couple intending to restore it. |
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In 1894 the islands were bought by the industrialist William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. |
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Following the Danish occupation land was increasingly owned by individuals and could be bought, sold and inherited. |
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Tuna fishermen have a scheme where surplus stock is not bought up, but fishermen receive direct compensation if their income falls. |
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Whenever gas is bought or sold at custody transfer points, rules and agreements are made regarding the gas quality. |
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I overestimated the number of attendees, and bought far too much food for the party. |
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Sir Peter Ustinov was stationed in the village during the Second World War, and bought a house on the cliffs after the war. |
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Once purchased, the presenters compete against each other in a series of tests to establish who has bought the best car. |
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Hammond bought a tan Toyota Land Cruiser, which had been converted into a soft top convertible by a previous owner. |
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In 1997, European demand for eels could not be met for the first time ever, and dealers from Asia bought all they could. |
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Goods from the slave trade were bought and sold on the Isle of Man, and Manx merchants, seamen, and ships were involved in the trade. |
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An English court case of 1569 involving Cartwright who had bought a slave from Russia ruled that English law could not recognise slavery. |
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At this time slaves were openly bought and sold on commodities markets at London and Liverpool. |
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The debt, amounting to more than 43 million francs in gold, was bought at a discounted rate of 21 million francs. |
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On 26 June 2013 the airport was bought by the Patriot Aerospace division of Rigby Group, which also owns Coventry Airport. |
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The first lifeboat in Cornwall was bought by the people of Penzance in 1803 but it was sold in 1812 due to lack of funds to keep it in operation. |
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When someone stole his guitar after he left it backstage overnight, Al bought him a red Silvertone Danelectro. |
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Sir John Bankes bought the castle in 1635, and was the owner during the English Civil War. |
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In 1999, after protracted dispute with Piaggio, LML bought back Piaggio's stake in the company and the partnership ceased. |
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Such fruits are not widely available in grocery stores, nor are their seedlings available in typical nurseries, but they can be bought as seed. |
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The Warden had earlier purchased Brantwood, Ruskin's former home, and The Waterhead Hotel was also bought, to boost capacity. |
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In 1885 the company bought the New Southampton Steam Towing Company and operated tugs and tenders under the subsidiary Red Funnel Towage. |
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Through tickets are available between any pair of stations on the network, and can be bought from any station ticket office. |
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In 1865 the railway ordered 10 more wagons and bought two carriages from the Ryde Pier Company. |
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In 1882 two composite coaches and four seconds were ordered, the last new carriages bought for the railway. |
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There have been attempts by artists to create art that can not be bought by the wealthy as a status object. |
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One of the prime original motivators of much of the art of the late 1960s and 1970s was to create art that could not be bought and sold. |
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The idea was that if the artwork was a performance that would leave nothing behind, or was simply an idea, it could not be bought and sold. |
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A force of Goths under Catualda, a Marcomannian exile, bought off the nobles and seized the palace. |
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The Germanic tribes that had joined the Suebi in their foray now bought peace by turning against them and attacking them in retreat. |
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Indeed she did have a pitambar in her trunk. She had bought it a long time ago and forgotten about it. |
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The East Romans tried to buy Uldin off, but his sum was too high so they instead bought off Uldin's subordinates. |
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In 1657, he bought the Launde Abbey estate in Leicestershire in 1658 and this was settled on him and his wife. |
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Some bought up large amounts of the rich agricultural land, others organised the exploitation and modernisation of mines and harbours. |
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Militia men bought and maintained their own weapons and armour, according to their family status and wealth. |
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The castle acted as a depot where slaves were bought in from different Kingdoms in West Africa. |
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Nonetheless, Lorenzo il Magnifico ensured his ward obtained the best education that could be bought at the time. |
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Pinto was bought by a Celebes merchant and resold to the King of Kalapa who returned him to Sunda. |
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Using borrowed money, Pinto bought passage to Siam where he encountered the King of Siam at war. |
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At the same time, the Coast Guard bought 30 acres of land formerly used as cattle pens, and built military housing. |
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The meat was cooked but was freshly obtained from young horses bought from Arabs, and was nevertheless effective. |
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Besides beef, tin fish and rice, bought in town, Santo has many foods that locals take for granted and that tourists enjoy as delicacies. |
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Merchants were those who bought and sold goods while landowners who sold their own produce were not considered to be merchants. |
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Maize is bought and sold by investors and price speculators as a tradable commodity using corn futures contracts. |
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Wexford strawberries are famous and can be bought in shops and wayside stalls throughout the summer. |
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Servants could be bought, sold, or leased and they could be physically beaten for disobedience or running away. |
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These English smallholders were eventually bought out and the island filled up with large sugar plantations worked by enlslaved Africans. |
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By 1666 at least 12,000 white smallholders had been bought out, died, or left the island. |
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Over time, he bought several manors at Congham, Westacre and Happisburgh and was granted a coat of arms, becoming a minor member of the gentry. |
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For example, suppose that B, a keen football fan, has bought a ticket for the next home match. |
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He then described how a quarryman had bought the mineral rights of an estate at Melkridge, on the route of the Roman Wall, for twenty-one years. |
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Donoghue bought her a bottle of ginger beer, which contained the partially decomposed remains of a snail. |
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He called consideration 'the price for which the promise of the other is bought. |
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Many companies are being bought for their patents, licenses, market share, name brand, research staff, methods, customer base, or culture. |
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With control of the ballot box and more access to credit, white planters bought out such farmers, expanding their ownership of Delta bottomlands. |
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Urban politicians bought large blocks of poll tax receipts and distributed them to blacks and whites, who then voted as instructed. |
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Asquith bought a house in Surrey, and hired nannies and other domestic staff. |
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Many farms were bought by yeomen who enclosed their property and improved their use of the land. |
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Accordingly, their uncle Joshua Sergeant bought back some of the shares on behalf of the Darby children. |
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The iron and steel works typically bought mines, and erected coking ovens to supply their own requirements in coke and gas. |
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In 2002 British Waterways bought the lock at Inglesham and the adjacent round house, to safeguard the route of the canal. |
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The CWS bought land on Trafford Wharf in 1903, where it opened a bacon factory and a flour mill. |
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In 1906 it bought the Sun Mill, which it extended in 1913 to create the UK's largest flour mill, with its own wharf, elevators and silos. |
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After 1745 he bought a stone wagon and worked it between York and Knaresborough. |
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If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a refund. |
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But what do you do if you already have equipment that you bought, on the cheap, and you don't know whether or not it is a refurb or not? |
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This colliery was developed in 1805, and its miners bought it out at the end of the 20th century, to prevent it from being closed. |
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In 1814 the brothers bought the former palace of the Prince Bishops of Liege at Seraing. |
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In 1907 US Steel bought its largest competitor, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, which was headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. |
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Also in 2002, GE Wind Energy was formed when GE bought the wind turbine manufacturing assets of Enron Wind after the Enron scandals. |
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A company can raise money by selling shares to investors and its existing shares can be bought or sold. |
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There is a single price schedule for all consumers but the prices vary depending on the quantity of the good bought. |
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So while he bought up rival companies and created a monopoly, he kept his prices low and campaigned vigorously for regulation. |
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Volvo Buses bought out Leyland Buses in 1990 and by 1993, the factory had closed with the loss of 200 jobs. |
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Peter and Janet McGuire who bought the hotel 1978, have owned the premises to the present day. |
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When they ceased publication in 2003, the rights were bought by Frances Lincoln. |
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I bought a second-hand car but I don't like the colour, so I'm taking it in for a respray. |
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Arnold had bought the small estate of Fox How, near Ambleside in the Lake District in 1832, and spent many of his holidays there. |
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In February, they bought The Hillside, a home previously inhabited by Amos Bronson Alcott and his family, and renamed it The Wayside. |
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He visited his family, stayed with Percy Anderson in London, telephoned Henry James in Rye, and retreated to a cottage he had bought in Cornwall. |
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Pauline's uncle bought the couple a house in Key West with a carriage house, the second floor of which was converted into a writing studio. |
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Hemingway bought a boat in 1934, named it the Pilar, and began sailing the Caribbean. |
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Many of the connecting waterways were bought by railway companies, and gradually fell into disrepair. |
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John Byron bought the manor in 1638 and it was sold by the poet, Lord Byron, in 1823, to the Deardens, who hold the title. |
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There are also lots of ricers. By two weeks into ricing season, Native Harvest bought from 30 or 40 ricers. |
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The petrol station at Hawes was bought out in October 2017 after North Yorkshire County Council awarded the community in Hawes a grant. |
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The centre was bought in March 2011 by Addington Capital following the 2010 collapse of Sapphire Retail Fund. |
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He and Ruswarp had bought day return tickets from Burnley to Llandrindod Wells to go walking in the Welsh Mountains, but they never returned. |
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In such a system there is typically no market in farmland, so land is not bought or sold in the open market and land rights are traditional. |
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After John officially attained his majority, Robert bought him his first legal beer. This is a common American rite of passage. |
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Pliny describes the haunting of a house in Athens, which was bought by the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus, who lived about 100 years before Pliny. |
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To do this, the commission bought large amounts of former agricultural land, eventually becoming the largest land owner in Britain. |
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Much of the land bought by the Commission in its early years was intensively planted with conifers. |
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It was bought at the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a large receiver of monastic spoils in South Devon. |
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I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter. |
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The car wasn't salvageable after the engine fire. The insurance company totalled it and I bought a new one. |
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You've done it again. It's practically Christmas Eve, and you haven't bought a single present. What's with you? Santaphobia? |
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But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro. |
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In Athens, Evans bought as many seal-stones and engraved gems as he could find. |
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In point of fact it was over fifteen, and even then she had bought it secondhanded, and almost unfit for use. |
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So I resolved to acquire a dog, and bought one from a prospector, who was stony-broke and would have sold his soul for a drink. |
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Before leaving the Kyndam I had bought in exchange what I thought to be enough yens and sens to see me through. |
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Her brother Clint had bought a horse and saddle off that pastor and there had been a setfast under the blanket nearly the size of a griddle cake. |
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I afterwards bought a shigram, a kind of coach usually drawn by two bullocks, and which is much used in India. |
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The saleswoman told her that her face would look older unless she bought this line of skincare products. |
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Common 375-ml cans are called tinnies, and can be bought in 24-can slabs for discounted prices. |
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She bought the jeans without trying them on because the salesperson said they were slimming. |
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One day Ox-head came up to us during smoko to have a yarn and to help himself to some lollies another bloke, Seth, had bought. |
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He was dressed in the suit he'd bought for his mother's funeral, beaver top hat, silk surtout. |
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I loved those red shoes but I couldn't thoil it in addition to the new dress I'd bought. |
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Then I mailed a sales brochure to the 500 or so people who had bought the BASIC unprotector, and a phenomenal 24 percent bought it. |
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He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs. |
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The day after the meeting I watched the stock I had bought seven months before, 5,000 shares of Angstrom Inc. |
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Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw. |
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His wife Asama, 36, is revealed as a shopaholic who bought clothes from Harrods and furniture from Britain. |
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Dealers also quietly bought gold fillings from morticians, proving that you can't take it with you. |
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Property developer Alan Warley bought the site two years ago and hopes building work will be underway by the end of the year. |
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Sinopec recently bought Addax Petroleum and thus has a large exposure in Kurdistan. |
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This morning I bought one of those whatchamacallits that keep you from getting lost. |
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This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it. |
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Back in the lobby he bought a copy of Time but didn't like the way the plain-clothes crushers looked at him, and left. |
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Rather than purchase an expensive razor he bought a packet of cheap disposable ones. |
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I carried the Mongoose's bags to the right carriage of the train, then went to a stall and bought a dosa, wrapped in paper, for him. |
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He finished carefully arranging a plate of fresh prawns, earthapples, and kale he'd bought special for Captain Falcon in Bangalang. |
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He bought the engineless car from the junkyard just to get some parts, and then sold it back to them. |
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I bought them in bulk at the health food store because the local feedstores didn't carry organic grains. |
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He bought it for a song in 1984 compared with what his fellow financiers were spending on tonier Park and Fifth Avenues. |
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They remembered then that they could have bought for a song canvases which now were worth large sums. |
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I thought he was only going to buy the basic kit, but he bought the full monty. |
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It is too hot to eat much, so we lunch on bananas and the gache loaf bought the previous day, and set off for Guernsey at half past one. |
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I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence. |
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Since he bought the book, it's just been sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust. |
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Have bought some farm land in Rio Grande Valley which should bring in a sizeable bundle of gelts come cotton picking time. |
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If he had been gingered, he would have gone well. After I bought him, I gingered him. |
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The shiny brass trumpet that Pop bought was his golden ticket out of Poorville and onto the streets of the three F's Fame, Fortune and Freedom. |
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My 33mhz 486 is no longer a goshwow machine, Dell having done their usual trick of waiting until I bought it before dropping the price hugely. |
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These were intervention stores of products bought up by the Community to maintain minimum price levels. |
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Merrydown cider was formerly made in Horam until 2004, when it was bought by SHS Group of Belfast. |
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As Sweyn had by now been bought off with a large Danegeld, Malcolm took his army home. |
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He was hopping mad when he came home and discovered that she had bought a new car without consulting him. |
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They differed in the length of the leg but were generally similar in the cut at the top.... By 1770, they bought new hosen. |
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Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions. |
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He bought one and presented it to Hans Sloan who pronounced it an elephant's tooth. |
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Pertinax's successor in Rome was Didius Julianus, who had bought the emperorship in an auction. |
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Finally King Osmund bought the land from his comes Erra and granted it to a religious woman known as Tidburgh. |
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Henry bought the County of Marche, then he asserted that the French Vexin and Bourges should be given at once. |
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We left the carriage, bought programs, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock. |
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They slowed the pace of Richard's mounted charge and bought Tudor some critical time. |
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In the 18th century all surviving interests in the monopoly were bought out by John Baskett. |
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The Feoffees for Impropriations, an organisation that bought benefices and advowsons so that Puritans could be appointed to them, was dissolved. |
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In many cases struggling canal companies were bought out by railway companies. |
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By the end of 1827 the company had also bought Chittaprat from Robert Wilson and Experiment from Stephenson. |
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Its early road cars could be bought as kits, in order to save on purchase tax. |
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The lease was later bought by Derby University and the building was renamed Derby Theatre. |
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Unlike many schoolmasters of the time, Priestley taught his students natural philosophy and even bought scientific instruments for them. |
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Much like old cars and trucks, buses often pass through a dealership where they can be bought for a price or at auction. |
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T Cowie plc was floated in December 1964, and in 1965 it bought out the first of many car dealerships. |
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In that year it also bought Unibus in Denmark, its first venture outside the United Kingdom. |
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The south west corner holds the largest piece, bought and donated by Kenneth Clark. |
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William Thomas Beckford bought a house in Lansdown Crescent in 1822, and subsequently two adjacent houses to form his residence. |
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Quite possibly the garrison bought the malt, and hired a local brewer to make beer from it for the troops. |
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Holbein broke his journey at Antwerp, where he bought some oak panels and may have met the painter Quentin Matsys. |
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He later bought a second holding to the south, at Rennie, on a rock overlooking the river Blackwater in North Cork. |
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He bought the porter's lodge at Westminster Abbey for use as his town house. |
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In 1902, Kipling bought Bateman's, a house built in 1634 and located in rural Burwash, East Sussex, England. |
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He bought two McDonald's in a bag and took them to the Social Services place. |
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Waters and Wright bought large country houses while Mason became a collector of expensive cars. |
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This is a general audience who've bought tickets before they even knew we were on the bill. |
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The band refused to play it at live gigs, and Decca bought only one ad to promote the single. |
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On Morden's death in 1934, building tycoon Charles Boot bought the land and turned it into a country club. |
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In 1935, Julius Hagen, the owner of Twickenham Studios, bought the site and formed a new company, JH Studios. |
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The music stage was bought by the Rank Organisation for the production of documentary films. |
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Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever since. |
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An unknown amount of raw footage was destroyed in 1998 by the company that bought Handmade Films. |
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In 1925 Milne, a Londoner, bought a country home a mile to the north of the forest at Cotchford Farm, near Hartfield. |
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Salts Mill closed as a textile mill in February 1986, and Jonathan Silver bought it the following year and began renovating it. |
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In 1966 the estate was bought by West Riding County Council and in 1983 was taken over by the National Trust. |
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Fans held a collection for Stephenson, and presented him with a hat bought with the proceeds. |
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After much speculation, control of the club was bought by London financier Pat Matthews, who also brought in Doug Ellis as chairman. |
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Following Leeds City's disbanding, Yorkshire Amateurs bought their stadium Elland Road. |
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In May 2011 it was announced that Leeds Chairman Ken Bates had bought the club and become the owner of Leeds. |
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In December 2008, Hayes bought Wright's controlling interest and John O'Connell's share holding in Wasps to take complete control. |
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Harlequins RL chairman and lifelong Wigan rugby league fan Ian Lenagan bought the club from Dave Whelan promising to start a new era at Wigan. |
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In Llandudno in Wales, he bought a public house on the Great Orme, which today retains several genuine artefacts from his career. |
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The dog, a German Shepherd called Geisha, had been professionally trained and was bought to protect Mansell and his family at his home in Jersey. |
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Tom Walkinshaw pounced and bought Johnny Herbert's contract, moving him into Ligier and then Benetton. |
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While BAT bought the Formula One entry, they set up the British American Racing team in a new factory in Brackley. |
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A few months later, his wife Yvonne bought him a set of darts for his birthday and he started playing weekly, occasionally at Bristow's pub. |
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Lipton died in 1931, and English aviation industrialist Sir Thomas Sopwith bought the Shamrock V with the intent of preparing the next challenge. |
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Indeed, journalists have stated Mansour would not had bought the City had the club not had the 50,000 stadium. |
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At Windsor, the princesses staged pantomimes at Christmas in aid of the Queen's Wool Fund, which bought yarn to knit into military garments. |
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In the case where a good is produced and unsold, the standard accounting convention is that the producer has bought the good from themselves. |
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As many as a third of all properties in Gwynedd are bought by people from outside Wales. |
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As a young man, Walpole had bought shares in the South Sea Company, which monopolized trade with Spain, the Caribbean and South America. |
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Thornton, Europeans usually bought enslaved people who were captured in endemic warfare between African states. |
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Two thousand five hundred tickets were printed for the opening day, all of which were bought. |
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Tenements are commonly bought by a wide range of social types and are favoured for their large rooms, high ceilings and original period features. |
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In 2005 Irish radiator manufacturer Quinn Group bought the former LG Phillips building, which became its European base. |
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Tower had been bought by the workers in 1994, despite government attempts to close it. |
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The other operators were bought out and the ramshackle collection of buildings on the summit was cleared. |
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In late 2009 Serco bought out Denholm's share, with the service now being known as Serco Marine Services. |
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A product that is sold to the global market is an export, and a product that is bought from the global market is an import. |
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When they bought Wintris he was working as a journalist and she is an anthropologist. |
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The Panama Papers reveal that a former Supreme Court judge, Barbosa, bought an apartment in downtown Miami. |
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Following his father's death, Henry bought another house in town and also a house in Clapham Common, at that time to the south of London. |
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He bought one for 20 guineas, transported it back and found it to work quite satisfactorily. |
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Network Rail bought a residential centre from Cable and Wireless in the Westwood Business Centre near Coventry for leadership development. |
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Great Western's management also bought North West Regional Railways and renamed it North Western Trains. |
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He bought a closed-in motor-van and fitted it out and went with it to a different part of the island each day, while Gwen minded the shop. |
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I bought a very nice Saab because some mullethead used half a tube or more of blue silicone seal to glue on a transmission cover. |
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It bought up the top talent, especially when Hollywood came to the fore in the 1920s and produced over 80 percent of the total world output. |
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In the 1970s Stoppard and his wife Miriam bought Iver Grove in Buckinghamshire and lived there for around 20 years. |
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In 1925, Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. |
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As a wedding present the bride's grandmother bought the couple Piers Court, a country house near Stinchcombe in Gloucestershire. |
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He bought the house Lumb Bank near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and maintained the property at Court Green. |
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When the lease of Ashestiel expired in 1811, Scott bought Cartley Hole Farm, on the south bank of the River Tweed nearer Melrose. |
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When his lease on this property expired in 1811, Scott bought Cartley Hole Farm, downstream on the Tweed nearer Melrose. |
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Barrie bought her a Saint Bernard puppy, who played a part in the novel The Little White Bird. |
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She bought a property, 54 Delancey Street, in Camden Town, and in late 1951 Thomas and Caitlin lived in the basement flat. |
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When Dorothy went to England each summer to see Omar, Pound would spend the time with Olga, whose father had bought her a house in Venice. |
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That evening, Smothers wore a shirt which Maurice had bought for him at the Beatles' Apple Boutique. |
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He discovered that former Beatles and Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein had bought a stake in his publishing company. |
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After toying around with her brother Alex's guitar, Winehouse bought her own when she was 14 and began writing music a year later. |
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He bought works from young artists he admired, such as James Lawrence Isherwood, whose Woman with Black Cat hung on his studio wall. |
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In 1978 he rented the canyon house in which he lived when he moved to Los Angeles, and later bought and expanded it to include his studio. |
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It was bought by the Tate Gallery in 2005 and caused controversy as Ofili was on the board of the Tate Trustees at the time of the purchase. |
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Some, such as animal sounds like those of tigers and walruses, were bought. |
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Set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. |
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Thus the period of validity would vary between 11 and 12 months depending how early in the month it was bought. |
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Households which bought a TV licence did not need to hold a separate radio licence as the TV licence covered both TV and radio reception. |
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The London Paper was the first newspaper to be launched by News International rather than bought. |
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Walter bought the logography's patent and to use it, he decided to open a printing house, where he would daily produce an advertising sheet. |
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In 1922, John Jacob Astor, son of the 1st Viscount Astor, bought The Times from the Northcliffe estate. |
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In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were bought from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International. |
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In London, the family first stayed in Surbiton, then within the year they bought a house in Holland Park, and six years later in Hampstead. |
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Primary education in reading, writing, and arithmetic might take place at home for privileged children whose parents hired or bought a teacher. |
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The food that could be bought in America was purchased at vastly inflated prices. |
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Whilst at Christ Church, in 1868 Dalmeny bought a horse named Ladas, although a rule banned undergraduates from owning horses. |
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In recent years the Hunter House was bought by the neighbouring Calderwood Baptist Church. |
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In 1795, Herman Lyon, a dentist and chiropodist, bought a burial plot in Edinburgh. |
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She bought a Travis chord book, and started playing on her father's guitar, teaching herself how to play at only 12 years old. |
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Fox Searchlight have bought life rights to Susan Boyle along with rights to the musical I Dreamed a Dream. |
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In 1953 the newspaper was bought by Canadian millionaire Roy Thomson who was in the process of building a large media group. |
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Following the takeover of RCA by General Electric in late 1985, RCA Services Limited was bought out by its local management. |
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The Ayscough family acquired the manor by marriage in 1539, then Thomas Jenison bought it in 1579 when the Ayscough family had no heirs. |
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