Sentence examples for bought him off from inspiring English sources
Nicky then bought him off me for £20,000 at the Doncaster sales".
Some big clubs will be interested in him because he is such a top player and that is something we have to accept," he told ITV. "We can't complain about that, we bought him off Ajax.
The dictatorship had tried to buy him off; it had tried to scare him.
Mr. Kellner spoke to them of being offered bribes, and of his determination not to let abusers buy him off.
An eminent journalist hints at why, describing how a Congress figure once tried to buy him off with a thick bundle of rupees placed in his car.
The book also claimed that arrangements were made by mobsters associated with Lieutenant Becker not to kill Mr. Rosenthal but to silence him by buying him off and spiriting him out of town.
But a quarter of his people stay alive only because they receive food aid from abroad.His other strategy is to seek nuclear weapons, presumably in the hope that foreigners will take him seriously and buy him off.
This, perhaps, was why Islam, the new idea, felt so threatening to the Meccan élite; why it was persecuted so viciously; and why its founder may — just may — have been offered an attractive deal, designed to buy him off.
Once-idealistic rock stars buy country piles and whinge about paying tax, the likes of Perez start taking the freebies and decline to call Paris Hilton out for homophobic remarks because she buys him off with access.
Jack's attempt to buy him off with one barrel clearly hasn't worked ("They murdered Hank, they stole my life's work") – but could he also be planning to use the ricin on the Schwartzes?
