Example sentences of "[verb] him [art] new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sinn Fein man claimed two plain-clothes men approached Mr Fox in Thomas Street , Dungannon on September 2 and promised him a new house if he agreed to work for them . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been terribly unfair to him and any possible new owners to find him a new home when he was in such a terrible state . |
| 3 | Darlington borough councillor Paul Geldart last night revealed how Mr O'Hare had begged the authority to find him a new home . |
| 4 | ‘ We obedience-trained him and found him a new home . |
| 5 | They met ; he found her company agreeable , she found him a new slogan . |
| 6 | She found him a new toothbrush in its unbroken wrap , and said , ‘ It 's a pity about Sir George . |
| 7 | Did you say he was in North Africa ? if we ca n't do anything about his legs we 'll give him a new head when he gets back . |
| 8 | Behold , I could show him a new thing . |
| 9 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 10 | Indeed , they are likely to win him a new reputation as a man for whom the boom never ended . |
| 11 | His family have bought him a new hi-fi for Christmas . |
| 12 | He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says . |
| 13 | She had bought him a new trilby with the tiniest of blue feathers tucked into the band at the crown . |
| 14 | The gaffer knocked somebody off their pushbike , had to buy him a new wheel and some compensation |
| 15 | Give him a new head if you ca n't find any legs to fit . |
| 16 | Maybe one day we 'll be able to bring him out of the closet , give him a new identity , promote him to a senior vice president . ’ |
| 17 | " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . " |
| 18 | He has persuaded the French Federation to give him a new consultancy role . |
| 19 | Major Robert Burrows had cancer , but Eva 's arrival seemed to give him a new lease of life . |
| 20 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 21 | The 5ft 6in speedster felt he was persona non grata throughout Dave Stringer 's five years in charge at Carrow Road , but Mike Walker 's arrival in the summer has given him a new lease of life . |
| 22 | Oliver 's experience of returning to Metastasio 's original text has given him a new respect for that most maligned of operatic dramatists . |
| 23 | After paying the price of fame brought by The Godfather and beating the booze Al Capuccino — as he 's known on set — says his three-year-old daughter has given him a new meaning to life . |
| 24 | The Amstrad PCW he bought for writing letters when handwriting became too difficult has given him a new interest in life . |
| 25 | His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship . |
| 26 | It was as if the dominance of his spirit had conquered the physical results of lack of sleep , lending him a new vitality which arced across the distance between them , charging her own weakened batteries , as he responded to a challenge which had been originally hers . |
| 27 | Sir Richard Hadlee is another who was nowhere near his knighthood as Test cricket 's leading wicket-taker when Notts first tossed him the new ball . |
| 28 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 29 | Mr Brownlow bought him a new suit and new shoes , and Oliver 's dirty old clothes were given away . |
| 30 | Le Nouveau had part traded in his mere Ford for this summit of status symbols , which gave him a new occupation . |