Sentence examples for he acquired one from inspiring English sources
Taitt had taught himself to play the cuatro (a small stringed instrument, similar to the ukulele), which he would use to perform traditional parang songs at Christmas, and soon mastered the guitar – he acquired one that a drunken sailor had abandoned while on shore leave.
But he acquired one yesterday with the selection of Richard B. Cheney as his running mate.
He acquired one of the 19 community TV franchises licensed by the government and, last night at 6.30pm, launched London Live, advertised as "the first 24-hour TV channel devoted to the capital", although north of Watford there will be bitter jokes that BBC1 and Channel 4 have been fulfilling that brief for years.
A year later he acquired one of Whitehall's largest departments when he became secretary of state for environment, food, and rural affairs.
When he wanted a pet, he bought a little turtle, then bought ten little turtles, then tried to breed them, then started selling turtles to other kids, then decided his life wasn't worth living unless he acquired one of every species of rare turtle, including a three-hundred-pound exotic tortoise from the Galápagos Islands.
Some thought that Parsons was ruining his career with his advocacy of radar, but he acquired one powerful backer.
Eventually, he acquires one in surprising circumstances.
For recollection is not the 'recovery' or 'acquisition' of memory; since at the instant when one at first learns (a fact of science) or experiences (a particular fact of sense), he does not thereby 'recover' a memory, inasmuch as none has preceded, nor does he acquire one ab initio.
(Boldly, and I think totally persuasively, Birmingham advances the theory that Joyce's eye troubles were the chief symptom of syphilis, which he acquired on one of his many trips, in his early manhood, to Dublin's brothels).
Adam began his career without an intel- lect, and there is no evidence that he ever acquired one.
A license would have probably been a bargain by comparison, and he said Rackspace might have acquired one if it were infringing Parallel Iron's patents.
