Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 5ft 6in speedster felt he was persona non grata throughout Dave Stringer 's five years in charge at Carrow Road , but Mike Walker 's arrival in the summer has given him a new lease of life . |
| 2 | Oliver 's experience of returning to Metastasio 's original text has given him a new respect for that most maligned of operatic dramatists . |
| 3 | The Amstrad PCW he bought for writing letters when handwriting became too difficult has given him a new interest in life . |
| 4 | After paying the price of fame brought by The Godfather and beating the booze Al Capuccino — as he 's known on set — says his three-year-old daughter has given him a new meaning to life . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's nothing else to hang about for now that your friend at UFA has given me a new face . |
| 6 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 7 | Despite reservations , America has given them a new lease of life ; a new challenge . |
| 8 | I think coming together after all these years has given them a new lease of life |
| 9 | ‘ All sorts of people have helped : The Rural Development Commission has lent us £10,000 to top up what we raised ; all the retired , trainee and working accountants , lawyers , journalists and businessmen in the village have put in hours of voluntary work , and our grocery wholesaler Pharaoh Quirke has given us a new fascia board . ’ |
| 10 | Membership of the EC started the trend , and the break-up of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union has given it a new lease of life as fledgling democracies create markets ripe for exploitation . |
| 11 | ParcPlace Systems has got itself a new president and CEO ; Bill Lyons , former Ashton-Tate chairman and CEO who left when Borland took over . |
| 12 | But Swedish company International Färg , based at Angered near Gothenburg , has found itself a new role in the reshaped European arm of Courtaulds Coatings . |
| 13 | A lonely nine-year-old has found herself a new granny and grandad by advertising in the local paper . |
| 14 | SMALL , West Ham 's forgotten striker , has set himself a New Year deadline to force his way back into Billy Bonds 's plans . |
| 15 | ALAN CORK , aiming for his 150th League goal this weekend , has set himself a new target — to join the 200 Club . |
| 16 | The new season has brought us a new county and a few new rules to keep us on our guard . |
| 17 | He says that the hospital should have told them a new machine was n't being bought . |
| 18 | His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship . |
| 19 | He was starting to appear distinctly shopworn , Lucy noted ; he seemed to have bought himself a new shirt , but a dip-through in a hotel washbasin did n't exactly make for the best possible finish . |
| 20 | For some — especially Jane — Henry 's presence had given them a new role , a new meaning ! |
| 21 | We 've won ourselves a new world . |
| 22 | She had bought him a new trilby with the tiniest of blue feathers tucked into the band at the crown . |
| 23 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 24 | She was not about to confirm their obvious belief that the count had found himself a new woman . |
| 25 | She had brought herself a new swimsuit but after she had changed she 'd stared critically at herself in the mirror in the changing-room . |
| 26 | They may be bottom of the table but their latest signings have given them a new lease of life . |
| 27 | Zoologists have found the animal difficult to classify in either the genus Felis or Panthera and have given it a new genus , hence Neofelis nebula . |
| 28 | Well she said it 's given her a new sort of er zest for the job , you know . |
| 29 | It 's given me a new interest in life . |
| 30 | He 's made me a new person ! |