Example sentences of "buy him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Amis in 1980 when his Money could n't buy him a decent shirt |
| 2 | Soon , Freddy was asking if Mr Schwartz might buy him a suit . |
| 3 | Generally I 'd buy him a second-hand suit and take it up . |
| 4 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 5 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 6 | Maybe I should buy him a place in the country . |
| 7 | His witty daughter , who attends Gwladys Street Primary School in the shadow of Everton 's Goodison Park , says : ‘ I 'll buy him a nice present and we 'll have a little tea party for him . |
| 8 | I 'll buy him a packet of fags for erm taking us out |
| 9 | and he all he took was , like it was funny he got accepted into Oxford decided he was gon na buy him a bottle of champagne . |
| 10 | Well why does n't she buy him a computer ? |
| 11 | You could buy him the Crown of Command as one of his magic items , which at 50 points still makes him marginally cheaper than an Orc or Black Orc Warlord . |
| 12 | And we was gon na when we saw the interest , when the when it was proved there was enough people coming , we were gon na buy him the tools for that , to do the job properly . |
| 13 | Occasionally I might buy him the big third Mac , the third Big Mac , just to prove to him he ca n't eat it , and this establishes in the superego a , that the , the superego to some extent speaks for reality and , and the reality sense is part of the , is part of the standards which are built into , which are built into the superego , and to , and therefore to a large extent the superego opposes the pleasure principle that operates in the id . |
| 14 | I said I said well now someone can buy him the other one for christmas . |
| 15 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His family have bought him a new hi-fi for Christmas . |
| 18 | She had bought him a new trilby with the tiniest of blue feathers tucked into the band at the crown . |
| 19 | She had even bought him a hunting dog as a present , a sleek , golden , sweet-tempered animal from which he at once became inseparable . |
| 20 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 21 | Mrs Sargent had bought him a pair of shorts and some little shirts ; Emmie washed these herself because Mrs Hellyer , though kind and willing , was unskilful — clothes came out of her wash-tub a uniform grey , and crumpled . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I 've just bought him a shoulder of lamb , a breast of lamb , well he |
| 24 | and he said do you do any running and he said no , but he said his son 's bought him a mountain bike , so he |
| 25 | Sherie intends to take Neil on holiday after Christmas to help him over his ordeal — after she has bought him the mountain bike he has set his heart on . |
| 26 | And he thought they were going to buy him a parrot . |
| 27 | To buy him a morsel of bread . |
| 28 | The bridge party duly clubbed together to buy him a dinner jacket . |
| 29 | These somewhat academic findings are not very helpful to the mother whose child has begged her to let him watch a gangster film or to buy him a plastic ‘ death-ray gun ’ for Christmas . |
| 30 | When the shops opened he had sent out two of his men to buy him a list of items he needed : a very large-scale map of the area north of London extending fifty miles in all directions , a matching sheet of clear plastic , map-pins , chinagraph pencils in different colours . |