Example sentences of "had be [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before . |
| 2 | American mediation , had been given a new lease of life by the Russian Revolution . |
| 3 | She had been rehearsing a new song on the way to the Ritz , but did n't know who wrote it . |
| 4 | There would also be new roads and possibly other investment : the nearest town to the Sizewell site had been promised a new swimming pool . |
| 5 | ‘ Ben had been making a new dress for the end of Act I which he promised to bring to Shepherd 's Bush by 5.45 pm , in time for my appearance . |
| 6 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |