Example sentences of "he was [verb] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had some land near Port au Prince , and he was building a new town . |
| 6 | He was schooling a new st'lyan that Burun had given him . |
| 7 | He was celebrating a new job at Christmas and went out with the boys in his smart pin-stripes . |
| 8 | Although he greeted them cheerily enough , they noticed that he was twisting a new piece of white chalk nervously between his fingers . |
| 9 | At the interview Buckmaster had explained he was founding a new security firm specializing in protecting high-risk and valuable cargoes . |