Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 2 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
| 3 | But by now I 'd found a new market — the Sunday papers . |
| 4 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 5 | Black Oil ? ’ ) , the socket set and a large hammer , and to my astonishment I had fitted a new wheel and mudguard . |
| 6 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 7 | She says she hoped things would improve but they did n't so she tried to start a new life . |
| 8 | Once you 'd done a new paragraph like they did like this blah blah blah in here . |
| 9 | Despite early suggestions she 'd started a new life in South Wales , she has never been found . |
| 10 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 11 | After a four month stay with her brother in Zambia , she returned to make a new career in nursing . |
| 12 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 13 | Tonight she had discovered a new side to herself . |
| 14 | Not long after her arrival in Scotland she had to attend a New Year meeting in Aberdeen , far to the north over mountainous country . |
| 15 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 16 | She had made a new life for herself now in London , a better , much more successful life than Dublin . |
| 17 | However , within six months of our treating her , she had regrown a new hip joint . |
| 18 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 19 | Dexter guessed that she had found a new man . |
| 20 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 21 | Six months later the Great War had broken out and she had found a new cause . |
| 22 | The previous day she had set a new world record in the preliminaries . |
| 23 | She had bought a new handbag this morning , a neat , compact little thing that matched perfectly with the new dress and shoes she was wearing . |
| 24 | She hoped to announce a new initiative to tackle unemployment within a few weeks . |
| 25 | She hoped to get a new home and take her baby back . |
| 26 | She was previously with IBM and before she left launched a new networking consulting business for IBM North America . |
| 27 | I. If you wanted to start a new firm for any product you might be attracted by the empty factories and the source of unemployed workers . |
| 28 | That is why already in 1968 , when I was first in government , we tried to develop a new hybrid of social justice and a market economy . |
| 29 | Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’ |
| 30 | As we have seen earlier in this publication , during the 1980s , under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher , we began to shape a new Britain . |