Example sentences of "i bought a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I bought a nice wedge yesterday .
2 At thirteen I bought a tuppenny packet
3 So I bought a long top , which came well below my hips , to wear with them .
4 Oh I was gon na say I bought a variable speed trigger for mine cos its back up it erm
5 I BOUGHT a bourgeois house in the Hollywood Hills , ’ sings Bruce Springsteen in one of the rare light-hearted moments of his two simultaneously released new LPs , ‘ with a trunkload of hundred thousand dollar bills . ’
6 I bought a new Wilson FM with a sliding table for tenoning , a reversing switch , roll-on and roll-off tables , all the whistles and bells that would make it a really useful machine .
7 ‘ It so happens with the weather changing I bought a new windcheater and also a beret this morning .
8 Finally I bought a new needle and that solved the problem .
9 ‘ Oh , I bought a new coat as well , it 's in that other box .
10 I bought a new pair of flannels and paid my membership on the spot .
11 Yesterday , I bought a new video comma , it was great .
12 Yesterday I bought a new video and it was great .
13 Yesterday I bought a new video which was great .
14 I bought a spare disk for it this morning .
15 I bought a spare one anyway .
16 I bought a cheap biography of William Godwin and learned about Mary Wollstonecraft , who became my heroine .
17 I bought a war-surplus jeep and followed the Pecos River just like Loving did .
18 It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long .
19 Before the trade took off I bought a small font ( of the splashing rather than the total immersion variety ) for 20 crisp oncers ; now you 'd need to check your savings before indulging in a piece of granite .
20 Before I left , I bought a large-screen television set for her and Aunt Lyallie .
21 The first time I bought a soft drink at a roadside stall and began cycling away , I roused a despairing cry : the bottle was worth almost as much as the fizz inside it .
22 I bought a red one in a different style but the same sort of fabric in Benthalls .
23 I bought a red blouse
24 they are warm , er , but its colour , I do n't know whether I perhaps I , if I saw cream again this year I might buy it , but erm , I 'm not sure that I want erm there 's this deep red , because I 've , I 've bought a red one in a different style , same sort of fabric , its very do you remember ? , when I bought that black and white checked skirt I bought a red
25 I bought a second-hand English flatbed press and issued shares .
26 " I bought a second-hand copy deliberately , and not just because of the price … "
27 " I bought a second-hand copy because it had been very usefully annotated , the notes alone will save me hours of work . "
28 I bought a second-hand clutch for £3 and fitted it myself .
29 I bought a British car and I am proud of it .
30 On 1 July Prince Charles was invested the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle and I bought a large Welsh flag to cheer the many Welsh , or half-Welsh , teachers in the school .
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