Example sentences of "bought [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was starting to appear distinctly shopworn , Lucy noted ; he seemed to have bought himself a new shirt , but a dip-through in a hotel washbasin did n't exactly make for the best possible finish . |
| 2 | THE Queen 's cousin , Sir Angus Oglivy , has bought himself an early Christmas present — a Zike , the invention launched last summer by Sir Clive Sinclair but which has only just reached the shops at £499 . |
| 3 | Edmondson , meanwhile , has bought himself an adjustable music stool with some of his £100 , and given the rest to charity . |
| 4 | He had bought himself the latest issue of Wildlife and was immersed in an article about otters . |
| 5 | Newbridge Networks Corp is at the forefront of Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology according to analysts contacted by Reuters : ‘ No-one else is shipping true ATM switches and they 've already shipped 60 switches , ’ Terry Murphy , a senior analyst at Smith Barney Harris Upham & Co said , adding that because no-one will need the sort of capacity offered by Asynchronous Transfer Mode transmission systems until later in the decade , Newbridge has bought itself a virtual insurance policy by leading in deployment . |
| 6 | Katherine had even bought herself a new dress for the occasion out of her own pocket money topped up with a little from the bank account into which her own presents went . |
| 7 | Maggie Byrne had bought herself a black silk dress from a secondhand clothes shop in Seven Dials to wear for Paddy 's burial . |
| 8 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 9 | A niece of Miss Vine 's bought her a new budgerigar . |
| 10 | He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says . |
| 11 | His family have bought him a new hi-fi for Christmas . |
| 12 | She had bought him a new trilby with the tiniest of blue feathers tucked into the band at the crown . |
| 13 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 14 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 15 | ( So the crew would protest ) ‘ that he 's bought us the best — |