Example sentences of "buy [pers pn] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward had bought it four years earlier with part of the advance on one of his books . |
| 2 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 3 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 4 | He had a little pink around his muzzle and eyes when I bought him two years ago , but this has been gradually increasing and is now quite extensive . |
| 5 | Leeds bought him 2 years ago I think … although I may be wrong — he was nt on schoolboy forms or anything . |
| 6 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 7 | The house sank into a gently decayed condition when a local architect bought it four years ago . |
| 8 | Software engineering outfit Dazix is now Intergraph Electronics after the company that bought it two years ago . |
| 9 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |