Example sentences of "i bought [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ So I bought a few chisels and some wood and had a go . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So I bought a long top , which came well below my hips , to wear with them . |
| 7 | I bought a pass for the swimming baths so I can get in for free . |
| 8 | ‘ I bought a pair of white Wrangler dungarees and a Laura Ashley blouse I knew I 'd wear again . |
| 9 | Before I left , I bought a large-screen television set for her and Aunt Lyallie . |
| 10 | ‘ I bought A $50,000 Boat For Only $10 , ’ boasts the headline . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I bought a lot at the sale . |
| 14 | Last November I bought a SWB diesel hardtop and it was shod with Michelin 6,50 x 16 radials . |
| 15 | I bought a set of BF Goodrich Traction Plus 7,50 x 16 LT cross plys . |
| 16 | I bought a second-hand English flatbed press and issued shares . |
| 17 | In June 1948 , just before I bought a gown , the Berlin Airlift began and continued until the autumn of 1949 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A small English patriot tried to haul it down , but was apprehended ; I bought a St George 's flag as well , to demonstrate impartiality . |
| 20 | ‘ It so happens with the weather changing I bought a new windcheater and also a beret this morning . |
| 21 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 22 | I bought a Moses basket ( quite rare at that time ) for my baby , and wondered why my room mate was not so enthusiastic . |
| 23 | I bought a man 's tweed jacket , trousers and suit . |
| 24 | Recently I bought a Python No 1 Multi-system joystick . |
| 25 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 26 | When I came out of the service I bought a Fender , but I just could n't hold on to it ; it was too small and the weight was wrong . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it . |
| 29 | Then I bought a Telecaster in 1967 . |
| 30 | ‘ I bought a house by the sea with it . |