During their travels in Europe, the Holmeses had purchased beautiful furniture, carpets, draperies, paintings, and bric-a-brac.

Some days ago the old man with dyed hair purchased carpets and old clothing from me.

Visitors who purchase carpets will generally require an export permit issued by the State Museum of Azerbaijan Carpet and Applied Art; many carpet-selling shops will obtain that permit for the buyer for a fee.

Albright announced in 2000 that the U.S. would begin to "enable Americans to purchase and import carpets and food products such as dried fruits, nuts, and caviar from Iran" and also was confident that Iran would provide cooperation with the United States in the battle against narcotics and international drug abuse.

Al Shihri said that he was in Afghanistan to purchase carpets for his family's furniture business.

Today's report said that Mr. Ganga's wife, Eugenie, loved to shop at Wal-Mart, purchased carpets, rugs, draperies and other items at the bid committee's expense and ran up the credit card of one bid committee member "to the maximum."

In September, an official tour guide we hired for the day insisted that we visit a large carpet emporium in Fez, where, on the guide's recommendation, we purchased several carpets.

While there was no trace of the original carpets, she found an English manufacturer with records dating from 1802, when the Carrolls would have purchased carpets, and ordered reissues.