Accidentally deleted OS X and recovery partition

Hello, I was playing around with dual booting Ubuntu on my Macbook Pro and it seems like I accidentally deleted my mac partition. Only ubuntu boots on it now.
I tried all the recovery startup commands but none of them work, leading me to believe I also deleted the recovery partition.
Any help in reinstalling OS X on my machine would be greatly appreciated.

What is the EXACT model/year MBP that you have and what is the OSX?
Ciao.

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I know it's late but maybe it will help other people.
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I booted into single-user mode and I read the log in /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/private/var/log/system.log, it was full of errors like theses
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