Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [art] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly . |
| 2 | If I were interviewing a new act , I would try to ascertain their sheer punishment factor . |
| 3 | At first , I was angry ; then I was living a new life — other things to think about , other people to consider . |
| 4 | For instance , I was writing a new song and it was making sense and suddenly these words came into my head : Once there was two Mexican women/ran over the hill/ripped off their skin/and ate it up . |
| 5 | Well she did n't persuade me but she said she thought it was a very good idea because it was on all the new sets and while I was buying a new set I might as well |
| 6 | Noticing I was buying a new battery for my headtorch he grinned knowing and said : ‘ Oh-oh ’ Somebody in for another Hebbert epic ? ’ |
| 7 | I was getting a new typewriter . |
| 8 | That 's where you met Colin and told him I was having a new car . |
| 9 | SUMMERCHILD : I was putting a new tape in . |
| 10 | I was promised a new version Agenda , which never arrived . |
| 11 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 12 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 13 | If you were to try a new carbon zinc battery on one of these testers , and then an alkaline one , in both cases the needle would bang hard over . |
| 14 | However , her needs were totally ignored in that she was given a new posting to Aldershot — home of the Parachute Regiment . |
| 15 | He saw that through them she was imagining a new life . |
| 16 | ‘ We were fencing a new corral today . |
| 17 | We thought we were building a new Jerusalem , but these people seem hell bent on destroying Babylon . |
| 18 | And with the help of all these er er pieces of equipment er we found in general that we were reaching a new standard of production , where we were increasing it er and we were able to bargain more strongly and more favourably on behalf of our members . |
| 19 | Commenting on the contract , Gerry said : ‘ We were awarded the new contract against stiff competition from other FM companies , and look forward to continuing our relationship with BP . ’ |
| 20 | If we were to introduce a new toy to a litter of puppies , they would play with it . |
| 21 | This is why I was so concerned when we were making the new set of the Beethoven symphonies in 1977 . |
| 22 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 23 | When the first giraffes began to stretch their necks to reach the leaves of trees , they were choosing a new habit that would guide the future development of their species over a vast period of time . |
| 24 | In the following year they were given a new jurisdiction concerning redundancy payments , and concerning statutory rights to information about particulars of contracts of employment . |
| 25 | They were dedicating a new runway at the airport . |
| 26 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 27 | Instead of reverting automatically to the universal European scholarly tongue of Latin , they were gaining a new confidence in the language of their own people . |
| 28 | On the same day as Miyazawa unveiled the changes , Tsutomu Hata — Hayashi 's predecessor as Finance Minister — and a former LDP secretary-general , Ichiro Ozawa , announced that they were to establish a new faction . |
| 29 | What the remit conspicuously ignores is the possibility that a change , as radical as the intended extension of industrial democracy , but in the essential character of trade unions might also be a need if they were to play the new part written for them . |
| 30 | They were researching a new power source that was being developed by a Danish engineer . |