Example sentences of "i buy [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 2 | ‘ I bought it as a deposit on another car and went on this journey for a reason , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In fact it was you I think who stopped me from pulling it up , I bought it as a , a stick from Bromley , in Bromley |
| 4 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
| 5 | I bought it in a jar and it was it was funny at the poppy actually and they said |
| 6 | ‘ And me buying it from a stall in the flea market only last week . ’ |