Example sentences of "have buy [pron] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He has bought me a drink . |
2 | He has bought himself a couple of Hunters and he plans to do some show jumping of all things . |
3 | There are players now valued in the £2m bracket who ca n't hold a candle to Ian in terms of ability and George Graham must be thinking he has bought himself a star on the cheap . |
4 | ‘ Anyhow , Grandfather had been down to John Adrich 's at the bottom of the hill and he 'd bought himself a grin'stone for sharpening tools . |
5 | He said , ‘ You 're gon na have to buy me a drink . ’ |
6 | You got to have a chauffeur , you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to make it worth me while coming off dole at forty pound a week . |
7 | You got to have a chauffeur , you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to make it worth me while coming off dole at forty pound a week . |
8 | I 'll have to buy him a drink . |
9 | I think I would have bought something a bit more substantial at it , I mean , if you 've that amount of money , they must have a fair amount of money |
10 | You should have bought me a man , and not a threadbare purse . ’ |
11 | And she 'd have bought me a practice . |
12 | Melanie thought that at least Uncle Philip could have bought her a sewing machine , so she need not have to stitch the long seams by hand . |
13 | Lucky to get away with having to buy him a wheel compensation |
14 | But he had small taste for the bagging beer and wished to have bought himself a wine . |
15 | She told Anne that the man , Ronald , had sent a taxi to take her to the dance and had bought her a casket of chocolates as they went in , but she had felt uneasy several times during the evening . |
16 | I had bought her a watch for a present . |
17 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
18 | ‘ I did not know that you had bought her a ring today , until we came back , ’ she said . |
19 | Mrs Sargent had bought him a pair of shorts and some little shirts ; Emmie washed these herself because Mrs Hellyer , though kind and willing , was unskilful — clothes came out of her wash-tub a uniform grey , and crumpled . |
20 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
21 | I did n't really support any team until then , though my mother had bought me a Chelsea hat ‘ n scarf a few months earlier . |
22 | She had bought me a hardback . |
23 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
24 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
25 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
26 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
27 | Accor , a hotel group , took the Motel 6 chain off the hands of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( which had bought it a year earlier in an LBO ) for FFr7 billion at around the same time . |
28 | I know it 's good in it ? but erm , bought her , I 've bought her a Ghost video . |
29 | the swing and I 've bought them a couple of wooden puzzles where you pick the bits up so , I thought well then I 'll call it a day there , and that 'll be that |
30 | ‘ I 've bought you a safety seat and fitted it in the back . ’ |