Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past three months , as the illness slowly overcame me , I had struggled to start a new novel . |
| 2 | All-India Radio reported on Dec. 20 that two major factions of the Akali Dal — the Akali Dal Longowal and the Akali Dal Panthic — had merged to form a new party . |
| 3 | He said the group had expanded to supply a new housing market of 200,000 units a year at a time when activity had slumped to 135,000 units . |
| 4 | BP had decided to add a new dimension to its research interests . |
| 5 | However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education . |
| 6 | On Jan. 10 the Federal Assembly had approved opening a new inquiry into those working in parliament , government and the president 's office in order to unmask former StB agents and collaborators . |
| 7 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 8 | It was announced on Dec. 13 that British Airways , the Dutch carrier KLM , and the Belgian carrier Sabena had agreed to form a new airline , to be called Sabena World Airlines , in which each would hold a 20 per cent stake ( the Belgian government holding the remainder ) . |
| 9 | In a statement before he left on Nov. 3 , Bérégovoy was quoted as saying that the two countries had overcome a period of strain and had agreed to give a new impetus to their partnership . |
| 10 | As the apparatus of imperial rule expanded in Asia and Africa , the aristocratic militarism that Bright had decried gained a new lease of life . |
| 11 | He wondered yet again where they had managed to meet , how Domenica had contrived to take a new lover without the whole laboratory and the whole village knowing . |
| 12 | It had meant starting a new drug , heparin , an anti-coagulant administered by self-injection . |
| 13 | The company says the attempt at a buyout failed because the managers realised that it would take longer than they had planned to develop a new generation of the 50 Series minicomputer line . |
| 14 | McAllister had gone out , but only to speak to Rose , who had managed to obtain a new post as a maid-of-all-work , and , her half-day off also being Wednesday , had come to ask McAllister to go up West with her again . |