Example sentences of "'d buy a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I like to think that if you 'd bought a nice full-nose Morris in nineteen forty five , and you wanted a replacement in nineteen ninety , you 'd have still got a reasonable Metro would n't you ? |
| 2 | I 'd bought a special bottle of wine . |
| 3 | Perhaps somebody decided to enter a religious order just after she 'd bought a whole new wardrobe … = I shall have to wear them obviously — it will teach me a rather curious and special kind of humility . |
| 4 | He 'd bought a red striped shirt to go with his charcoal double-breasted but back at Stuart Street he 'd remembered that that was the only shirt he had for tomorrow . |
| 5 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |