Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 2 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 3 | He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states . |
| 4 | I told you to keep the new ones separate . |
| 5 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 6 | Sources from both clubs said they understood the new bid was from the same source , but an Argyll spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the company was behind the bid . |
| 7 | Bob Johnston , chief inspector at the Department of Economic Development 's Trading Standards branch , said he welcomed the new laws . |
| 8 | The store manager said he found the new technology more labour intensive and less flexible . |