Sentence The phrase "make a buy" is not technically correct or commonly used in written English.
Instead, the phrase "make a purchase" or "buy something" would be more appropriate. For example, "I need to make a purchase so I'm going to the store to buy some groceries."
Besides, we don't have the money to make a buy".
A confidential informant was sent to the residence on Tuesday to make a buy for methamphetamine, Terrell said.
What is usually needed is the efforts of a trained undercover officer -- a person unknown in the community -- to make a "buy" in the apartment.
The agent's basic modus operandi was almost exactly as Burroughs lays things out in Junky: Narcotics agents operate largely with the aid of informers … The … pigeon is given marked money and sent out to make a buy.
He would not go cold into a corner full of black and brown men and try to make a buy, he says, unless his investigators had gathered evidence that a specific dealer was operating there.
He would roll into town accompanied by a stool pigeon (generally a local user who was either in the pay of his bureau or keen to escape a prison sentence), win the confidence of local suppliers, get his pigeon to make a buy with marked notes and then start making arrests.
The wine is fail-safe insurance at unnerving moments when, empty-handed en route to a dinner party, you must make a buy-and-run purchase.
Those looking to make a buy-to-let purchase may also wish to do so.' He says canny homebuyers should find out from their local authority which areas will be targeted by the Government.
"People get so focused on the negative advertising that it spurs them not to make a buying decision," he said.
Nurture prospects who aren't ready to make a buying decision yet.
When it comes time to make a buying decision resistance is greatly diminished.
