Example sentences of "she [vb past] just buy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , Mrs M. R. Ault of Gravesend , Kent , wrote to say she 'd just bought a ribber and how could she knit a V-neck band using the ribber . |
| 2 | William suggested , because she 'd just bought Mary Ann Evans 's and was always talking about the trouble she was having finding good staff . |
| 3 | Er , my my natural mother er , actually had me adopted when I was a baby and erm so I was actually adopted by a minister and his wife and I think , erm , I would have been brought up completely differently if she , she 'd just bought me up on her own , you know , so I think erm oh that 's it really . |
| 4 | Pale with shock perhaps ; she 'd just bought herself a mink . ’ |
| 5 | cos she said she 'd just bought a flat |
| 6 | She had herself spent several weeks alone in her cottage when she had just bought it and when she returned to mix with people she had found that her vocabulary had deserted her , that without stimulation she had completely lost the art of conversation , had been able only to mutter inanities in monosyllabic form . |
| 7 | She had just bought ( in anticipation of her legacy ) a new Sony portable ( ‘ I 'll be sitting about a lot when I get very big ’ . |
| 8 | At five minutes to five , Shirley , the typist who had been helping Ianthe to file some cards , covered up her typewriter , put on the black imitation leather coat she had just bought , and hurried away singing . |
| 9 | John was on Hermes ; Nora was trying out a new three-year-old she had just bought — a dun-coloured filly with white stockings , a little undersized but very sturdy and , the dealer said , ‘ a double-tit of great stamina . ’ |