Example sentences of "[vb past] buy a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I used to buy erm I used buy a lot of er the Meg and Mogs cos I found that they sort of helped him . |
| 2 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 3 | I 'd bought a TV from the man in the chip shop , and as the black-and-white box heated up it stank of grease and fish , but late at night I heard of cults and experiments in living , in California . |
| 4 | She 'd bought a pot of raspberry jam that had turned out to be bad . |
| 5 | Supposing , when Rozanov and I visited the porno bookshop , I said I 'd bought a couple of hardcore videos , hired a video recorder at the hotel , and spent two afternoons watching porn in my room . |
| 6 | Not all the transactions were strictly honest , though , and sometimes customers got home to discover that they 'd bought a cat or a puppy , thus that expression and an expression bonus : ‘ letting the cat out of the bag ’ . |
| 7 | She 'd bought a lawn edger sharp as a razor , sharp enough to cut your throat with . |
| 8 | In despair , I told my husband I 'd bought a book on how to cure children 's sleep problems . |
| 9 | He 'd bought a BMW because he 'd heard that it was the car to have , and would n't admit that he felt uncomfortable in it . |
| 10 | A month later she rang to say she 'd bought a Knitmaster ! |
| 11 | And he 'd bought a car had he ? |
| 12 | Did Harry tell you he 'd bought a stallion and four mares of his own ? |
| 13 | On November 3 the buyers agreed to buy a cargo of wheat at 51s. 9d. per quarter . |
| 14 | The leading case is Arcos Ltd v EA Ronaasen and Son [ 1933 ] AC 470 where the buyers agreed to buy a quantity of staves of half an inch thickness for making cement barrels . |
| 15 | The respondents agreed to buy a van on the basis that the price could be paid " on hire purchase terms over a period of two years " . |
| 16 | Id' er er g got married in er twenty five and er agreed to buy a house in twenty six , January , moved into it and er So er I took over the t horse and dray and er opened the front room as a a shop , a greengrocers shop . |
| 17 | Subsequently , the victor fell so in love with Russia that in the late 1980s he sought to buy a flat in Moscow . |
| 18 | So if a member borrowed to buy a practice for £200,000 , he might now be able to sell it for only £50,000 . |
| 19 | Or had a tourist picked up one of the cards she had lavishly distributed around the village shops and arrived to buy a souvenir ? |
| 20 | Stephen arranged to buy a replacement for the lost horse and a further pair . |
| 21 | Robert Welch , a merchant from Liverpool , decided to buy a bit of it . |
| 22 | After all , when you decided to buy a Toyota , you recognised the attributes that have made us one of the worlds foremost manufacturers and our cars such good quality and value . |
| 23 | They soon became close friends and decided to buy a house together at 19 Alderney Street , between Victoria Station and the River Thames : a mixed but lively and convenient neighbourhood . |
| 24 | During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog . |
| 25 | He then disappeared to buy a round of teas from the canteen . |
| 26 | Every morning I went to buy a baguette at Bluot 's boulangerie at the corner of the road . |
| 27 | Well I went to buy a car |
| 28 | Yes I went to buy a car |
| 29 | I went to buy a car in Doncaster |
| 30 | I was at a jumble sale the other day and managed to buy a bucket and a coat . |