Example sentences of "he had [verb] the new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had beaten the New Zealander Jack Lovelock in the AAA mile — one of five consecutive championship victories — but Lovelock , the more experienced runner , was using the race chiefly to see how and when this little man used that devastating sprint . |
| 2 | He had invited the new client over to dinner at his own home . |
| 3 | When Bjorn Borg recently made his unsuccessful comeback , he attempted it with his faithful old wooden racket as he had found the new weaponry too difficult to control . |
| 4 | The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction . |
| 5 | Ironically , Robert Naish was already unwell and sadly died in February 1985 but not before he and his wife were made Life Members and he had opened the new extension ( a larger lounge and a new men 's changing block ) on August 27th , the previous year . |
| 6 | He had underestimated the new mood of his members who had become sick and tired of the never-ending series of disputes , which they knew in their consciences had been driving the Division ever closer to bankruptcy . |
| 7 | Finally he had exhausted the new pilots ' capacity for fear . |