Example sentences of "bought a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought a really cheap gooseberry bush from a local store , making sure I picked one with good straight uncut stems ( I think its variety was ‘ Leveller ’ ) . |
| 2 | Three days before she came back , I cleaned the flat , bought a new jacket and five bright new cotton shirts , stayed sober , worked like hell on the magazine in a way that made Francis ‘ gasp and stretch his eyes ’ . |
| 3 | On the way back that afternoon she bought a can of red spray paint in a car accessories shop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a consequence I really wish that I had spent the extra money and bought a slightly better machine . |
| 6 | ‘ So I bought a few chisels and some wood and had a go . |
| 7 | Irate with frustration through constantly having to pick up my pencils after bending over , I really thought I 'd cracked it when I bought a ‘ posh ’ mechanical pencil , with a clip . |
| 8 | John Charrington , the son of a Hertfordshire vicar , bought a third share in the brewery in 1766 , and by 1783 the Charrington family was in sole control . |
| 9 | S&N did not buy a beer , they bought a name and the price of Masham 's survival has been the marketing of this name . |
| 10 | We always understood there to be 14 and in his book ‘ I Bought A Mountain ’ , Thomas Firbank defines the walk as covering ‘ the fourteen peaks in Wales which exceed three thousand feet in height . |
| 11 | Madrid : Further profit-taking bought a marginal 0.8-point fall in the index to 324.87 . |
| 12 | In August Hi-Tec bought a Dutch sports clothing company Beheermaatschappij Copex in a profit-related deal worth up to £7.7m . |
| 13 | Lord Justice Butler-Sloss said that while still working for others , they bought a property and turned it into an hotel , with Mrs Gojkovic working hard alongside her husband . |
| 14 | He went to an auction of a big house in Cambridge and bought a lot of cheap carpets . |
| 15 | One of them bought a ticket and he 'd go to an exit , open the door and his mates would flood in . |
| 16 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 17 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 18 | That afternoon I went to the café at Fagurhólsmýri and bought a pair of Tuf workman boots . |
| 19 | So I bought a long top , which came well below my hips , to wear with them . |
| 20 | Threepence bought a night 's boxing at ‘ the Nursery ’ as this training-ground for fighters was known . |
| 21 | I bought a pass for the swimming baths so I can get in for free . |
| 22 | He was strongly tempted to stay on the train and take his chance but remembering the man he had seen the Railway Police arrest he got off at Lichtenberg and bought a ticket at the machine . |
| 23 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 24 | He later bought a restaurant in Scotland , before taking out a lease on a hotel in Scarborough , North Yorkshire . |
| 25 | ‘ I bought a pair of white Wrangler dungarees and a Laura Ashley blouse I knew I 'd wear again . |
| 26 | The House of Lords , who do a lot of comparing of information as Bills go through , bought a Sun workstation just to use it . |
| 27 | A young couple and the wife 's parents bought a house together but only the younger couple were registered as owners . |
| 28 | And then we bought a copy of the New Musical Express and saw a little ad that went with it . |
| 29 | So in 1980 IBM came back to Mr Gates , then 25 , who quickly bought a rudimentary operating system from another young company , renamed it DOS , and fixed it up for IBM . |
| 30 | In December Nomura bought a stake in Frankfurt 's Messeturm , Europe 's tallest building , for an estimated DM500m . |