Example sentences of "[pers pn] had new [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had new locks fitted and — and I just stayed there .
2 I saw that I had new books by my bedside .
3 Oh she had new shoes
4 She was safe now , though she had new anxieties .
5 ‘ One shot showed a problem with the lever arms on the roll bar , so we had new ones made for the British Grand Prix at Aintree .
6 First we had Rocks , then we had new Rocks and now we have Super Rocks .
7 He met and struck a rapport with Brian Stoddart , academic historical adviser on the mini-series , who became his co-author on Cricket and Empire : ‘ We had new information , and above all could place the incident in its broader social , political and historical context .
8 As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera .
9 As reconditioned they had new B.T-H. 509c motors and line switch attachments fitted to the controllers so that they could be used interlocked with air brakes .
10 They were produced in court , where Sergeant Thorpe explained they had new pockets .
11 So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah .
12 It had new orders .
13 The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report .
14 He had new cases made for the shells , covered in scarlet Genoese velvet with two rows round of gilt-headed upholstery nails on the lid , the sides and ends blank-panelled with a single row of the same .
15 He had new clothes : loose grey trousers of a material which looked like silk and a grey tunic which was open at the front almost to the waist .
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