Example sentences of "and buy [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the Tories get in , I 'll go out and buy myself a new frock , ’ said perhaps the most influential man in British fashion . |
| 2 | Then I had to save up and buy myself a black dress for the afternoons when the housemaid was out , you see . |
| 3 | Maybe he 'd better go and buy himself a new bike , that 's always a good way to break bits of the human body . |
| 4 | As soon as the shops opened after the holidays he was going to go out and buy himself a tie ! |
| 5 | Why do n't you go and buy yourself a sweater , on me ? ’ |
| 6 | no it 's not , it 's been designed especially for it so erm he 's gon na get erm , I said what are you doing all this for I said , it 'll be easier to go and buy yourself a three wheeler |
| 7 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |
| 8 | Yeah well I could n't so I had to come over and and buy them a flipping new one ! |
| 9 | things you see , so erm , I thought right well that 's it Ben can have the garage , I 'll go and buy her the flying circus , Joseph can have the bus and call it a day . |
| 10 | Steve looked at it , he said I think you 'd better go to shop and buy yoursen a new one . |
| 11 | Sometimes Bill yields to impulse and buys them a couple of gooey Danish pastries as well . |
| 12 | ‘ And you 've been to Diss today and bought yourself a grin'stone ? ’ |
| 13 | Then she took them into Arkwright 's and bought them a bar of chocolate each , which she could ill afford , and they all went back to the Vicarage . |
| 14 | It was Uncle Bean who provided the rock on which she occasionally rested , who kept them in horse feed and bought them the swimming gear she hankered after . |
| 15 | He thanked the press for a 50th birthday card in Glasgow and bought everyone a drink in Wales , but he does not mingle like Paddy Ashdown or even Mr Major . |
| 16 | He may have taken pity on her and bought her a drink , at the same time buying a little companionship for himself , easing the ache of his loneliness . |
| 17 | Anyway , Mrs Aggie had been very sorry she had struck her and she had taken her into the town and bought her a real new bonnet , although she would allow her to wear it only on a Sunday . |
| 18 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 19 | And bought her a birthday present . |
| 20 | He went and bought her a sherbet |
| 21 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
| 22 | And in fact what I did do was erm went and bought her a secondhand wardrobe , took it to her , and she was really pleased because apparently she thought it was a better one than the first one . |
| 23 | On Friday evening , Seth directed Joey to a car dealer and bought him a maroon 1982 Cutlass Calais for three thousand dollars . |
| 24 | I took him to the ‘ Tally 's ’ ( ice-cream shop ) at the corner of our street and Bedford Street — and bought him a large cone . |
| 25 | ’ ‘ ’ A nice bit of steak , ' ’ he said and she rushed out and bought him a steak . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , she said he needs some new pyjamas — his old ones are so worn through they 're hardly decent — so I went out and bought him a pair . ’ |
| 27 | He took it in the pub and he got three quarts of beer ; and he had to lay a penny down and bought me a bottle of pop . |
| 28 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 29 | I strode over to the bookstall and bought myself a map of the place . |
| 30 | I borrowed forty pounds from Malc 's Mum and bought myself a long black frock with diamanté trim and began to learn my trade . |