Example sentences of "buy herself a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should buy herself a new frock and set her cap at someone else . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Maggie Byrne had bought herself a black silk dress from a secondhand clothes shop in Seven Dials to wear for Paddy 's burial . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pale with shock perhaps ; she 'd just bought herself a mink . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Elaine also insisted on buying herself a brightly patterned sarong and a hand-crafted chunky necklace to match . |
| 11 | She bought herself a pair of shoes there once . |
| 12 | She developed uncomfortable neuritis in her right shoulder : ‘ writer 's cramp ’ she decided with resignation and bought herself a typewriter . |
| 13 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 14 | It got to be hard to handle , so she bought herself a small file box and some packages of 2 × 3 cards . |
| 15 | She bought herself a ring and pretended she was a widow . ’ |
| 16 | You always do , ’ murmured Busacher as Willi bounced away to welcome Gaston , Julius , and Julius 's large wife who , overwhelmed by the invitation to one of Willi 's famous parties , had gone to Vienna and bought herself a long brown satin dress with a purple sash swathed round the middle . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She bought herself an entire new wardrobe of clothes |
| 19 | 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 . |