Example sentences of "to buy him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he thought they were going to buy him a parrot . |
| 2 | To buy him a morsel of bread . |
| 3 | The bridge party duly clubbed together to buy him a dinner jacket . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A man came up and offered to buy him a drink . |
| 7 | Later in the morning he had accepted Mr Mallory 's offer to buy him a drink in the plain , four-square , oddly restful pub at the end of the road . |
| 8 | I 'll have to buy him a drink . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have no doubt wha did I not tell you about the fact that I hit the roof when he said that she has said that when he was twenty one , she was going to buy him a Vauxhall Chevette . |
| 11 | so er we must remember to buy him a card and something |
| 12 | Plus Thomas 's wedding an'all and I 'd like to buy him a decent present like considering His flat 's nice . |
| 13 | The gaffer knocked somebody off their pushbike , had to buy him a new wheel and some compensation |
| 14 | Lucky to get away with having to buy him a wheel compensation |