Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company . |
| 2 | Along with our new view of ourselves should go a new credo altogether . |
| 3 | I must start a new life among strangers . ’ |
| 4 | I must declare a new interest at the outset of my speech in that I have recently become the parliamentary adviser to the Federation of Master Builders . |
| 5 | I 'll need a new challenge . ’ |
| 6 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 7 | Well I 'll have a new book now when I go , right , and you can have my old one . |
| 8 | So I thought I 'll have a new carpet in my hall . |
| 9 | er , I 'll put a new switch on and wire , it ai n't the wire at all it 's the switch |
| 10 | I did n't care if it was raw , if the pangs of birth were ugly ; I wanted to be somewhere I would n't be defined by what I 'd been , where I could fashion a new notion of myself and impose it on others as the truth . |
| 11 | Wish I could afford a new car , I 'd love a nice new car ! |
| 12 | Maybe I could have a new dress . |
| 13 | I was hoping that P & I 's would be having a sale and that I could get a new concordance but she would n't even let me look . |
| 14 | Later on — when you decide to go — I could get a new assistant . ’ |
| 15 | . And I could join a new image club if I wanted to . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd like a new life and a day without fear , ’ his patient replies . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd like a new member of staff to know they are there to help people who ca n't help themselves and they also must have one hell of a lot of patience ! |
| 18 | When I got home , I would buy a new computer and explore first DesignaKnit and then other software packages . |
| 19 | Someone would get a new car , or a new cat : a tree would be lopped : the milkman 's horse bolt . |
| 20 | Lady Cynthia ( like Elizabeth ) had lately been to Haworth and was delighted with it : ‘ I shall write a new book about the Brontës , Three Lucky Girls , ’ she remarked . |
| 21 | ‘ If you will excuse me , ’ she said politely — no single woman ought to be talking alone with a man at nearly midnight — ‘ I will collect a new candle from the kitchen and retire again . ’ |
| 22 | I 've promised him that I will make a new life for myself and not think of the past . |
| 23 | The days are coming , says the Lord , When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel … |
| 24 | Another twenty years and my mortgage will be paid off so I can have a new car then ! |
| 25 | I 'll go out today and see if I can find a new daddy then , shall I ? |
| 26 | Yeah , probably if you want me to get that old mower going I ought to go up to Woods and see if I can get a new drive belt . |
| 27 | I can plan a new kitchen easily , i.e. where all the cupboards and appliances would fit |
| 28 | Extending the heating system , which may require a new boiler for the larger loft conversion , and moving water tanks , electrical work and plastering is best left to qualified professionals . |
| 29 | ‘ He obviously enjoys being involved in something which could mark a new stage in his career . |
| 30 | A showpiece Glass City to celebrate the city 's links with the glass-making industry and a 40,000 seater stadium , which could provide a new home for the football club , are included in the scheme . |