Example sentences of "[pers pn] had bought a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 2 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 3 | At one time I had bought a chalet just outside Interlaken . |
| 4 | That day I had bought a fern , a modest enough plant but with bright , shiny leaves and an indestructible appearance . |
| 5 | Mr Lamont said in The Times that he was forced to leave a meeting with Jacques Delors in Brussels last Friday ‘ to answer questions about whether I had bought a bottle of wine in Paddington ’ . |
| 6 | If I had bought a hammer or a chisel |
| 7 | What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately . |
| 8 | It was a long time since I had bought a card to celebrate the arrival of a new baby . |
| 9 | She had bought a twin tub washing machine for just ten pounds , the next day she was dead . |
| 10 | Yet later that evening , when they had both returned home and he had enquired about her meeting with Alison and whether she had bought a pram , she had hesitated before admitting she had actually been to a cinema . |
| 11 | She had bought a silk tie for Moran , blouses and deep plum-coloured sweaters for the girls , a pair of white football boots for Michael . |
| 12 | She had bought a recipe book and was attempting a rather complex casserole , involving red wine and many ingredients . |
| 13 | I do n't want to be talking to you , thought Penelope desperately , trying to appear interested in what Robina Fairfax was saying about a place in West London where she had bought a piece of statuary for her garden at a very reasonable price . |
| 14 | She had bought a copy of De L'Administration . |
| 15 | She had bought a farm at Willowdale , Ontario . |
| 16 | They had bought a paper pattern , and followed the instructions carefully ; it would be the most beautiful dress ever seen . |
| 17 | They had bought a house in London so that for some time each year they could be in England , and now , with the baby almost due , Felipe had brought Maggie back . |
| 18 | The defendants called rail workers out on strike and the plaintiff , an ordinary traveller , incurred hotel expenses when he was unable to travel on the journey for which he had bought a ticket . |
| 19 | A dealer who refused to pay Sotheby 's after he had bought a work by the artist Marc Chagall at auction last year , has been ordered by a court in Amsterdam to pay the auction house DFl. 27,000 ( £8,400 ; $14,700 ) . |
| 20 | He had bought a copy of The Times before he had come to The Randolph that morning , but hitherto had not even glanced at the headlines . |
| 21 | Matisse substantiated this story by his statement to Warnod that he had bought a negro statuette in a curiosity shop in the rue de Rennes , on his way to Gertrude Stein 's , and that Picasso saw it and became enthusiastic about it . |
| 22 | He had bought a bunch of parsley on his way in , because he had heard that it clears away the smell of alcohol . |