Example sentences of "buy her [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ After classes I would buy her a drink and have a little chat about things . |
2 | What so you 'll buy her a bar of soap ? |
3 | But my mother 's image of my future had to be challenged : I was not to marry ; I would be her companion at all times in a perfect mother and daughter symbiosis ; with my teacher 's salary I would buy her a fridge and a washing machine and take care of her . |
4 | Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet |
5 | I 'll buy her a dinky toy one |
6 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
7 | Melanie thought that at least Uncle Philip could have bought her a sewing machine , so she need not have to stitch the long seams by hand . |
8 | She told Anne that the man , Ronald , had sent a taxi to take her to the dance and had bought her a casket of chocolates as they went in , but she had felt uneasy several times during the evening . |
9 | I had bought her a watch for a present . |
10 | I know it 's good in it ? but erm , bought her , I 've bought her a Ghost video . |
11 | ‘ I did not know that you had bought her a ring today , until we came back , ’ she said . |
12 | He used to go babysitting , he 's bought her a ring and everything . |
13 | I mean , like you say , you ought you know you ought to buy her a talking alarm clock for Christmas . |
14 | On one birthday her friends dubbed together to buy her a necklace decorated with a ‘ D ’ for Diana . |
15 | We ought to buy her a present . ’ |
16 | Moynihan , once a junior minister , who had lost his seat at the election , had had the good fortune to buy her a drink the evening before and had suggested ‘ an exquisite light lunch ’ at Macau , the town 's only Portuguese restaurant . |
17 | On the afternoon of the day when her father had refused to buy her a book , Matilda set out all by herself to walk to the public library in the village . |
18 | ‘ Not a play to miss , ’ she said in the interval , while Herman had gone running round Sloane Square to buy her a box of chocolates . |
19 | Prosecutors did not go ahead with charges that she plotted to handle part of the proceeds of the robbery by allowing her husband to buy her a Tudor mansion . |
20 | The pater pays for holidays and he 's about to buy her a car , though she can borrow the family car and chauffeur whenever he does n't want them . |
21 | I was hoping to buy her a ring for Christmas but we just could n't afford it . ’ |
22 | ‘ Not necessarily , ’ she demurred , ‘ but she was kind , and I thought I would like to buy her a wedding present — and because you kindly took me in when you did n't want to , ’ she tacked on softly . |
23 | When he offered to buy her a house in Blackpool , her request was for a simple terrace house , similar to the one in which they had spent their early life together . |
24 | When a kind and affluent sister-in-law offered to buy her a house in the suburbs of London , she asked , " What will my boys do there ? " |
25 | He offered to buy her a coat . |
26 | I never had any money to buy her the things she wanted . ’ |
27 | Then to stop her crying , anything to stop that , he had to buy her the set of antique-look brass fire-irons she had set her heart on for the lounge , to give an extra touch of authenticity to the rustic stone fireplace and the imitation-log gas fire . |
28 | I 'm not buying her a present , I mean I 'll chip in with a present for you for her and Mark if it comes , but we 'll have to go to , but erm , you know , she , . |
29 | He was careful to exchange addresses and telephone numbers and , if he had not been so short of funds , would have suggested buying her a drink at the Ritz , outside which they were both standing . |
30 | I thought I ai n't buying her a pump toothpaste cos all the others will you know , if they see a pump toothpaste |