Example sentences of "buy herself [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , they made the handsomest of couples , Havvie and his American Princess — the latest Yankee heiress , unkind gossip said , to buy herself a title and a place in English society . |
| 2 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 3 | It had seemed to him perfectly reasonable that she should eventually wish to marry , just as she might choose , in a fit of boredom or acquisitiveness to buy herself a fur coat or a new item of jewellery . |
| 4 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 5 | She developed uncomfortable neuritis in her right shoulder : ‘ writer 's cramp ’ she decided with resignation and bought herself a typewriter . |
| 6 | She bought herself a ring and pretended she was a widow . ’ |
| 7 | Camille walked down a sleazy stretch of road , where half the shops were closing as the developers quadrupled the rents , and bought herself an ice-cream to take away the taste of margaritas : it was already midday , so she had only an hour or two before she could go home , claiming that her games lesson had been cancelled because someone had felled the netball posts . |
| 8 | He said but she 'd be considered along with all the others but she ai n't gon na get a job with terminal full time when her contract runs out on May the eighteenth if she does n't get her finger out and get dr driving test passed and buy herself a car . |