Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His editorship ended in 1880 following a change of ownership , but in 1877 Knowles had already founded a new magazine , the Nineteenth Century , which became even more influential , bringing Knowles again into the centre of contemporary thought and politics . |
| 2 | But the teams later discovered that the conduit was dry , suggesting that the lava had already found a new course . |
| 3 | Dickinson had already set a new training record earlier in the 1982–3 season when sending out the winners of twelve races on Boxing Day 1982 . |
| 4 | Now , he had just appointed a new Cabinet and he insisted that the would not leave until it had been formally approved by the Majles , or parliament , as the constitution demanded . |
| 5 | There was an inspirational maths teacher , Mr. Tahta , and the school had just built a new maths room , which the maths set had as their classroom . |
| 6 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |
| 7 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 8 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 9 | The ticket collector , who had just had a new perm , thought the girl 's geometrically cut and excessively short hair awful . |
| 10 | Williams explained in the court that the MRF had just had a new intake of NCOs . |
| 11 | The Mark 2 coaches inaugurated in 1966 had generally set a new standard of comfort with for example better heating and ventilation but there were no Mark 2 catering or sleeping cars . |
| 12 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |
| 13 | From his viewpoint in his seat , enervated by this strange sapped feeling , Jimmy could see that Gilbert 's previous nervousness had now reached a new pitch . |
| 14 | The only wonder was that he had n't set a new time limit for her departure . |
| 15 | Some damn printing shop or some job shop that had n't bought a new type since nineteen fifty or eighteen ninety . |
| 16 | Borg , with his great sweeping topspin shots , had virtually invented a new game ; now the equipment was being changed to cope with it . |
| 17 | Blaize had been deposed as leader of the New National Party which he led to a landslide electoral victory under US auspices in 1984 and had defiantly formed a new grouping . |
| 18 | After the meal , Drago told them that he had recently completed a new instrument and that at midnight he and his colleagues were planning to play together , in order to invoke some ghosts . |
| 19 | The New York Times of Nov. 19 reported that the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps had recently issued a new ruling requiring all its graduates to sign an affidavit saying that they were liable to be discharged and forced to pay back their scholarship if they were discovered to be homosexual . |