Example sentences of "bought this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I bought this gold parka in Leeds and the jeans are by Moschino . |
| 2 | Penny went shopping with Rowan , into one of those very expensive boutiques shops , yeah , and between them they bought this dress , and when they got it home , Rowan 's mother would n't let her have it because it was too revealing and so Penny was stuck with it and then her mother would n't let her have it either , but the shop would n't refund , it would only give them credit so she 's got all this money to spend in the shop . |
| 3 | I bought this floor of the house from an Arab family . |
| 4 | The 35 million Christmas trees bought this year would have to rot for 30 years before decomposing in dumps that are already overflowing . |
| 5 | THOSE Welsh fathers whose sons hero worship Emyr Lewis and Robert Jones rather than Ian Rush and Mark Hughes could be in for a nasty shock next Christmas when they discover the Welsh rugby kit they bought this year may well be out of date . |
| 6 | Users who bought this year can get a $800 upgrade . |
| 7 | And the benefits of this is that er , as you know , erm , inflation takes over , and we measure our spending power against that , five pounds in your pocket today , wo n't buy what tomorrow , what it bought this year , and next year , what it would have bought this year . |
| 8 | No well that will be our that will be our Christmas trimmings that we bought this year . |
| 9 | I bought this plot of land and built this bungalow on it . |
| 10 | ‘ We went out and you spent some cash/That do n't mean that you bought this ass ’ . |
| 11 | A local pilot bought this demonstrator . |
| 12 | He told me that if I bought this land at five pounds a dunum , he and his friend would buy it from me at twenty-five a dunum . |
| 13 | ‘ Brand bought this small-holding : house , outbuildings and a bit of land , way out on the moor . |
| 14 | and any way went down and answer it and I could hear him talking , erm , you remember he bought this aeroplane back from Americ erm from Australia , this one of and it was Australian Air Force one that he had on Australian 's , erm came back and stayed in England for a little while and then he went back to Australia , just killed himself . |
| 15 | Well he bought this slate quarry to scrap it . |
| 16 | I bought this lot down with me . |
| 17 | She believes he bought this property from Durance with the sole purpose of turning out the others . |
| 18 | Did you see them things I bought this morning ? |
| 19 | It was when I married him that we bought this house here , just to escape to at the weekends , you know . |
| 20 | So it was that in the Autumn of 1983 , just after we bought this house we decided to plant a small spinney to hide a development of new houses on our north border . |
| 21 | Later he bought this house , built a new wing , greatly improved the garden , and extended the estate from twenty to one hundred acres , mostly farmed by tenants . |
| 22 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I bought this house for you ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ When we bought this house , everything was delivered , ’ said Mrs Lamport , a part-time office worker and mother of two . |
| 25 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 26 | We bought this ton lorry . |
| 27 | What 's it called the , they bought this pig medicine pig retained there trotters and every thing and then it goes any more of the erm dialysis put it , make a pig rock and roll . |
| 28 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 29 | After some further outside tests and a fair amount of soul-searching , I eventually bought this detector and the 10.5in accessory coil . |
| 30 | right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid |