Example sentences of "i buy a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a 200W heater mat and external thermostat , will these be suitable , or should I buy a heater/stat ? |
| 2 | ‘ Could I buy a couple of pairs of greys from you ? ’ he asked , coming to a sudden decision . |
| 3 | One man 's excuse was : ‘ Why should I buy a licence ? |
| 4 | Why did I buy a number of odd cones of cotton ? |
| 5 | Can I buy a printer driver for this ? because they 'll say What 's your registration number ? |
| 6 | He said , can I buy a lot together ? |
| 7 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ So I bought a few chisels and some wood and had a go . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So I bought a long top , which came well below my hips , to wear with them . |
| 13 | I bought a pass for the swimming baths so I can get in for free . |
| 14 | ‘ I bought a pair of white Wrangler dungarees and a Laura Ashley blouse I knew I 'd wear again . |
| 15 | Before I left , I bought a large-screen television set for her and Aunt Lyallie . |
| 16 | ‘ I bought A $50,000 Boat For Only $10 , ’ boasts the headline . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I bought a lot at the sale . |
| 20 | Last November I bought a SWB diesel hardtop and it was shod with Michelin 6,50 x 16 radials . |
| 21 | I bought a set of BF Goodrich Traction Plus 7,50 x 16 LT cross plys . |
| 22 | I bought a second-hand English flatbed press and issued shares . |
| 23 | In June 1948 , just before I bought a gown , the Berlin Airlift began and continued until the autumn of 1949 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A small English patriot tried to haul it down , but was apprehended ; I bought a St George 's flag as well , to demonstrate impartiality . |
| 26 | ‘ It so happens with the weather changing I bought a new windcheater and also a beret this morning . |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | I bought a Moses basket ( quite rare at that time ) for my baby , and wondered why my room mate was not so enthusiastic . |
| 29 | I bought a man 's tweed jacket , trousers and suit . |
| 30 | Recently I bought a Python No 1 Multi-system joystick . |