Example sentences of "his new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are made to wait while he shows his new toys ; a scarlet tricycle , a pull-along duck , a space-age gun playing the tunes of eight different police sirens when you pull the trigger . |
| 2 | He went to rehearsals for his new plays , of course , but he was always happy to hurry home again . |
| 3 | James , who journeyed down from Scotland in 1603 to take up his new positions as English monarch and supreme governor of the English church , was firmly committed to Calvinist theology and was to take a very active interest in the ecclesiastical affairs of his new kingdom . |
| 4 | So on first consideration it seems odd that in the early days of planning The Possessed Dostoevsky should write to his friend Maikov and describe his new venture as ‘ like Crime and Punishment but even nearer to reality , even more urgent , and directly concerned with the most important contemporary question ’ . |
| 5 | His new venture , The Champion , opening in early June , will close at the traditional time of 3.30am . |
| 6 | As a former Rover Triumph/Leyland/BL/Austin Rover/Rover man , I was heartened to see Kevin Morley is continuing the best traditions of the company with his new venture . |
| 7 | SIR Phil Harris , one of the stock market stars of the 1980s , makes a dramatic comeback this month , having increased the value of his stake in his new venture Carpetright from £3m to about £30m . |
| 8 | SIR Phil Harris , one of the stock market stars of the 1980s , makes a dramatic comeback this month , having increased the value of his stake in his new venture Carpetright from £3m to about £30m . |
| 9 | Henry , on his part , turned seriously towards the fulfilment of his new obligations . |
| 10 | They would go in a day or two , he thought , and then he could collect his new guns from Holland and Holland on the same trip . |
| 11 | John Tugwell , a rival to Wanless in the race to succeed Frost , wins diplomatic praise from his new boss for the way he has restored Bancorp to profit this year . |
| 12 | IN THE unlikely event that Stephen Hargrave , youthful former chairman of Pathfinders Group , does not get on with his new boss Hugo Biermann — who recently reversed into the company — he now has another venture to concentrate on . |
| 13 | His likely successors include his new boss , Carlton programmes director Paul Jackson , and Janet Street-Porter , the BBC 's head of youth programmes . |
| 14 | Mr Gergen will best serve his new boss if he reminds him of the strengths of one of his old ones . |
| 15 | His new boss , Bill Clinton , seems to disagree . |
| 16 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 17 | His new boss Alex Ferguson says : ‘ I feel desperately sorry for Dion . |
| 18 | He had the absurd conviction that his new boss would look after him , somehow explain things and make them right . |
| 19 | Omri , a king of Israel in the ninth century , for six thousand shekels acquired the entire site for his new capital city of Samaria ( 1 Kings 16.24 ) . |
| 20 | Sigismund III of Poland actually enticed Marenzio to his new capital at Warsaw for a short period in 1595–6 and employed a number of Italian musicians , one of whom , Asprilio Pacelli ( 1570–1623 ) , published a book of madrigals ( Venice , 1601 ) ; but that was all . |
| 21 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 22 | His new novel , PARADISE NEWS , will be published on 30 September , a week after his talk . |
| 23 | In his new novel , Towards Asmara , Keneally is writing about the present ; or , more accurately , about a historical event that is not yet over . |
| 24 | He would have liked to have a girl of his own in there , instead of all the dull books to review , and the first scribblings of the rough draft of his new novel . |
| 25 | Nigel started to talk more about class in his new novel and less about twinkling nipples . |
| 26 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 27 | His new novel will be published next spring . |
| 28 | His new novel , The Hammer of God ( Gollancz , £15.99 ) , is essentially an expanded short story , and although I suspect it will not perform as well as the Rama series , it will still be much in demand . |
| 29 | Lord Archer was this week working on his new novel , a thriller due to be published in September . |
| 30 | Maxwell senior wants to concentrate on bringing his new purchase , the New York Daily News , back to life . |