Example sentences of "i buy it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Could I buy it in London ? ’ |
2 | ‘ I bought it off George Holder 's widow , ’ he said . |
3 | I found it in a pawn shop and I was n't sure what it was , but I bought it for about 20 dollars . |
4 | I bought it for her , see , with my first wages , and when she gave it back , I gave it to you . |
5 | I bought it for £3.00 — a bargain , in spite of its ragged cover and broken spine . |
6 | I bought it for £25 plus £3.10 for the tax and insurance from a taxi driver who had abandoned it at Middlesbrough station with a blown head gasket . |
7 | what I bought it for . |
8 | drinks it so I bought it for him . |
9 | I bought it for you . |
10 | I bought it for Jay cos I do n't like you know what I mean ? |
11 | I asked that when I bought it of course . |
12 | ‘ I bought it with my own money . ’ |
13 | I bought it with my conservation hat on , and think it is well worth doing . ’ |
14 | I had to clean my erm my new desk out in this room before I bought it with me |
15 | I got it from I bought it at er Blooms . |
16 | ‘ I bought it at Oxfam , ’ said Ellen , as if that excused everything . |
17 | At Easter time yes I bought it at Easter time |
18 | Alex , leader of dance band UB96 , at No 18 with Das Boot has invested £8000 in the car , and says : ‘ I bought it on the spur of the moment after spotting it in Los Angeles . |
19 | I bought it on the strength of the single . |
20 | ‘ I bought it as a deposit on another car and went on this journey for a reason , ’ he said . |
21 | In fact it was you I think who stopped me from pulling it up , I bought it as a , a stick from Bromley , in Bromley |
22 | I only have the small size winder , perhaps one day I might get the larger size ; I bought it from PDB Engineering . |
23 | For instance , I bought it from John and John sold it to me , or I received/got a letter from John and John sent me a letter are equally ‘ natural ’ as far as the phraseology of English is concerned ; their ‘ acceptability ’ is , of course , determined by the context in which they occur . |
24 | I bought it from . |
25 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
26 | ‘ I bought it in London especially for this evening . ’ |
27 | I bought it in instalments from a man in the village ; it was a wonderful Art Deco radio which proved indestructible . |
28 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
29 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
30 | I bought it in Alders . |