Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | and when we moved I think we had a new insurance policy to cover and the others became mine . |
| 32 | That 's that 's like erm when we had a new girl once we put on the card BANW banw . |
| 33 | We had a new fork lift , we had tools galore , everything was coming in . |
| 34 | In 1944 , we had a new house built just outside the village for my husband and myself . |
| 35 | We had a new battery put on the Jenny |
| 36 | I remember very distinctly the morning when my father came to tell us we had a new baby sister . |
| 37 | Alan came home as a Little Lord Fauntleroy , and we had a new baby brother , Geoff . |
| 38 | We had a new television yesterday Fred , that 's what she 's talking about . |
| 39 | Someone , a bit of a wag , said , ‘ Time they had a new stick to hit that there bell . ’ |
| 40 | They would have lists of all the people that had bought books from them or might have bought books from them in the past , categorized by where they live , the age of the person , the sex , the special interests , the past purchases , and then they would send out special books erm special letters , if they had a new doggie book coming out they might select all the ladies over fifty-five who had bought doggie books in the past . |
| 41 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 42 | They had a new machine in , but after a pound or so I had mastered it and won an extra spaceship . |
| 43 | But they had a new headmaster oh he 's just retired , he 's been there been there since Lynn was there when since she was since the er she 's twice that age so I mean he must have been there eighteen years but when he went there he 's er totally the school from the word go |
| 44 | They had a new car , and went to the cinema and ate out . |
| 45 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 46 | An hour later , standing in the darkness , so far from having the fourth murder in a series , they had a new killing : one which was superficially like the others , but whose only real resemblance lay in the infliction of one particular wound , and the manner and location in which the body was laid out after death . |
| 47 | The morning crew were a little surprised to find they had a new colleague but none of them was unduly perturbed by the intrusion . |
| 48 | He had a new strap fitted , but had the old one retained for posterity . |
| 49 | He had a new Range Rover . |
| 50 | McCallen has been having problems with the RVF Honda for which he had a new engine during final practice and as a result , his times have not been up to scratch . |
| 51 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 52 | He had a new dream , now , in which he was chased by something or someone down the long , windowless corridors of an institutional building . |
| 53 | He had a new film ready for release , Rachel and the Stranger . |
| 54 | It was emotionally captivating to see a truck laden with consumer goods draw up at Tazarbu , to hear the driver announce that he had a new poem from Muhammad Dabub in Ajdabiya , and to see shopkeepers , customers and driver sit in the shade to listen to the poem . |
| 55 | To make matters worse , he had a new wife , Raine , formerly Lady Dartmouth , a formidable woman who became fiercely protective . |
| 56 | He had a new name , a new identity , in fact he was Lewis Crane , you know , the art critic . |
| 57 | He had a new Fiat er what were it ? |
| 58 | He had a new studio , a real home was about to swing into life , and , most wonderful of all , he had a studio with a cradle and a baby 's pot in it . |
| 59 | He said he had a new lover she was still at |
| 60 | Harley was next and I saw with interest that he had a new caddie who was unknown to me . |