Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , I was angry ; then I was living a new life — other things to think about , other people to consider . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Noticing I was buying a new battery for my headtorch he grinned knowing and said : ‘ Oh-oh ’ Somebody in for another Hebbert epic ? ’ |
| 5 | I was getting a new typewriter . |
| 6 | That 's where you met Colin and told him I was having a new car . |
| 7 | SUMMERCHILD : I was putting a new tape in . |
| 8 | I was promised a new version Agenda , which never arrived . |
| 9 | However , her needs were totally ignored in that she was given a new posting to Aldershot — home of the Parachute Regiment . |
| 10 | He saw that through them she was imagining a new life . |
| 11 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 12 | At SunWorld in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago it was displaying a new range of X-terminals based on the MIPS R3000 chip and proprietary ASIC chip called XSA ( X-server accelerator ) . |
| 13 | The Parliamentary Party was not in fact electing a prime minister ; it was electing a new party leader . |
| 14 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |
| 15 | By adopting the Scottish term , Free Church , instead of Nonconformist , the movement was showing that it was making a new start with an eye to the twentieth , not to the nineteenth or even eighteenth century . |
| 16 | When Charles appeared for dinner , Diana noticed that he was sporting a new pair of cufflinks in the shape of two ‘ C's intertwined . |
| 17 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 18 | A man has made medical history by having four organ transplants.In two operations he was given a new heart , two lungs and a kidney.It was the first time in Europe so many organs had been replaced successfully.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 19 | When the day came , Grégoire was carefully prepared : he was given a new haircut ; George himself supervised his washing procedure , which was inclined to be haphazard . |
| 20 | In a bizarre twist in the saga of the failure of Supercomputer Systems Inc , the company last week announced that it had abandoned efforts to find new investors to keep the company alive — and then Steve Chen immediately announced that he was forming a new company that will seek to create the world 's fastest computer . |
| 21 | He had some land near Port au Prince , and he was building a new town . |
| 22 | He was schooling a new st'lyan that Burun had given him . |
| 23 | ‘ A year ago , he was driving a new BMW 5-series car , but I last saw him in an E-registered Ford Fiesta . ’ |
| 24 | He was celebrating a new job at Christmas and went out with the boys in his smart pin-stripes . |
| 25 | Although he greeted them cheerily enough , they noticed that he was twisting a new piece of white chalk nervously between his fingers . |
| 26 | At the interview Buckmaster had explained he was founding a new security firm specializing in protecting high-risk and valuable cargoes . |