If they demurred, he spoke to their agents after their death seeking to negotiate a purchase.

Instead, he hoped that the right to negotiate the purchase should be made through an open and fair bidding process.

After several years of negotiations where the club attempted to negotiate the purchase of its space, the co-op board listed the club's space for sale as a private residence.

My son negotiated the purchase of a house, which was partially complete, from a housebuilder.

The programme of land acquisition accelerated after 1951, and by 1957 the government had negotiated the purchase of most of the land it had targeted.