Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest buying a new cone of yarn , unless you happen to have one in the cupboard that is untouched and which still has the price paid for it . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to earn a new contract with Everton , ’ he insisted . |
| 4 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
| 7 | But by now I 'd found a new market — the Sunday papers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I hope to find a new challenge , not just something to add to a list but a challenge with a greater cause behind it . |
| 10 | Should I have started a new sentence then . |
| 11 | In some ways , I suppose buying a new detector is much like buying a new car . |
| 12 | So , in this case I do inherit a new form , do I ? |
| 13 | I do need a new pair of shoes . |
| 14 | Dealing with one or two specific points that have been raised , particularly with regard to size , in my view the balanced community which can be envisaged within a new settlement will provide for housing , employment , community services , and recreational opportunities , it will not simply be a peripheral housing estate transferred to the open countryside , in my submission I have already stated that I do believe a new settlement of up to fourteen hundred dwellings should indeed be viable , and commercially attractive to the development industry . |
| 15 | Black Oil ? ’ ) , the socket set and a large hammer , and to my astonishment I had fitted a new wheel and mudguard . |
| 16 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've written a new play . |
| 18 | Since then I 've made a new start . ’ |
| 19 | I 've made a new term planner actually but I 've forgotten to bring it . |
| 20 | I 've had a go , I 've had a new mate today . |
| 21 | I 've had a new plate , I 've had a hell of a lot with , with a one of the |
| 22 | I 've designed a new yacht which we believe stands an excellent chance of winning the next round-the-world race . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've invented a new game , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've introduced a new concept in the programme , involving a couple of dozen people , from all levels within the company , in half-day workshops which may look at as many as a dozen different Improvement Team targets . |
| 25 | I 've got a new toy — it 's wonderful . |
| 26 | I 've got a new toy I want to show you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ One moment , please , I 've got a New Year 's present for you . ’ |
| 28 | He said I 've got a new system now I 'm going and what is that then ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 've got a new idea for the fall , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I 've got a new management team . |