Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] buy him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bridge party duly clubbed together to buy him a dinner jacket . |
| 2 | When the householders learned that the completion of the contract marked the start of Ron 's retirement after 35 years , they clubbed together to buy him a carriage clock and bottle of whisky as a thank you gift to remember them by . |
| 3 | I 've just bought him a shoulder of lamb , a breast of lamb , well he |
| 4 | He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says . |
| 5 | She had even bought him a hunting dog as a present , a sleek , golden , sweet-tempered animal from which he at once became inseparable . |
| 6 | Geoff , an old fashioned sort of polliss , retired on health grounds a few years back and we still have n't bought him a pint . |