Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Hal Miller , chief executive of the show 's organisers , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , also revealed that more than half the visitors had said they planned to buy a new car ‘ in the coming months ’ . |
| 2 | And , indeed , they helped to establish a new resurgence of interest in the sociology of law . |
| 3 | As such gateways to heaven multiplied , they came to outline a new map of sacred urban topography . |
| 4 | These changes meant that they needed to form a new covenant based on some understanding of their mutual fears , their tendency to split their feelings between them , and their need to respect each other 's yearnings and protests , now more readily experienced by each of them . |
| 5 | They had constructed a new personnel file . |
| 6 | Because the governor 's palace was in a state of very sad repair and they had to put a new roof in it . |
| 7 | Julias Lukasiewicz , from Carlton University in Ottawa , Canada , said that if new high speed trains were to be successful in North America then they had to include a new track like the Japanese Bullet trains or the french TGV . |
| 8 | Unwelcomed , unwanted , despised and dug out , they had added a new dimension to my life , given me another self and I wanted never to go from Claro . |
| 9 | They had proposed a new rule to the effect that , if during an interrogation , a suspect omitted to mention some fact which would exculpate him or her , but kept this back until the trial , the court or jury could infer that the evidence was untrue ( Criminal Law Revision Committee , 1972 ) . |
| 10 | The US companies hoped they had found a new seam of commercially-viable movies , but none thought too deeply about what they were buying into . |
| 11 | They had learned a new set of problem management techniques which they were beginning to use as a matter of course without seeing them as being a single method of solving a particular problem . |
| 12 | For example , David Walker and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield approached us because they wanted to take a new look at photosynthesis . |
| 13 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |