Example sentences of "he had bought the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had bought the 1815 house four years previously , when it was a mere shell . |
| 2 | So when the first stallion , a beautiful bay unbroken three-year-old , was lead into the ring , and Lindsay saw and sensed in the horse many of those virtues that a horse-lover hopes for , he found himself bidding against two knackers , until he had bought the horse for the price of dogs-meat — $185 ! |
| 3 | The jeweller 's description of the person from whom he had bought the valuables was thought by the victim to resemble her former lodger . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if he had bought the land with notice , we might well and rationally say de se queri debet . |
| 5 | Our congenial landlord , Roger Baird , also lived in the village where his wife Margaret was a tenant farmer ; he had bought the manse as a long-term family investment . |
| 6 | Instead , Blanche asked Blufton where he had bought the mechanical canary . |
| 7 | But the Leader had indigent Ninfania in the grip of golden promises ; he had bought the proprietors and the landowners with his forecasts of authority and profit , and he had bludgeoned the powerless . |
| 8 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 9 | WHEN bought Burston windmill he could never have envisaged all the changes which would take place — but he always chuckled when he looked at the map — geographically he had bought the high ground . |
| 10 | Due to the Transfer Regulations , the purchaser is in much the same and in no better a position than if he had bought the shares of the vendor company . |
| 11 | Ronnie 's story was splashed over the Sunday papers telling how he had bought the cabinet for fifty pounds from someone who walked into his shop . |
| 12 | Robert Stewart , 28 , of Skipton Green , Low Fell , Gateshead had denied the charge at Newcastle Crown Court , saying he had bought the car just three weeks before being stopped by police and the 351 squares of the drug hidden in fog lamp covers must have been left there by the previous owner . |
| 13 | Andrew Clarkson , prosecuting , said Siddle told the police he had bought the video from a man in a pub and had found the jewellery and just not handed it in . |
| 14 | He told them he had bought the car but had left the Manwarings in good health . |