Sentence examples for had basically bought from inspiring English sources

Cayard, whose team advanced to the challenger's finals in last spring's cup before being eliminated by Italy's Prada Challenge, said Ellison had basically bought a complete America's Cup starter kit.

Arts officials, like Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate, made ritual lamentations afterward about the unfortunate "sea change" this would bring about, but the government had basically bought their argument beforehand — that unlike welfare or child care, culture generates revenue.

Some felt Cobb County had basically "bought" the Braves with the offer of $450 million in public assistance to build a new Braves stadium and surrounding mixed use development.

"They've basically bought out Soho and are trying to get rid of all the little men.

With the restaurant packed in like an overstuffed burrito, Mr. Gingrich put on the Full Newt for over an hour, discoursing on underground power lines in Sweden, the exorbitant price of heating oil and the ridiculous sum that Michael R. Bloomberg paid to have "basically bought the mayorship" of New York.

I'm personally a big fan of both — Khan Academy videos have helped me brush up on algebra and calculus, and I've basically bought 23andMe kits for my whole family (and have been known to gush about the service to anyone who will listen).

On Jimmy Kimmel Live last month, Oliver declared that "the food companies of America own you," adding that "These moron frozen food companies -- pizza industry, french-fry industry -- have basically bought, bribed, bullied Congress, who have completely let everyone down, into basically making it okay to feed [students] french fries every day".

"The business of politics is changed, and I firmly believe that we are beginning in this country to look like a Russian-style oligarchy where a couple of dozen billionaires have basically bought the government," Sen. Schultz candidly said in a recent, spontaneous interview in his office.

On the issue of the cover, Maxwell later stated that "I wanted people to have the facts: the title, the selections and the fact that you had to basically buy it.

Strickler admits he had basically given up.

"The recruitment agency has basically tried to buy off Ram Kumar by offering him another job instead of paying him the full compensation he deserves," said Samar Thapa, of the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions.