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

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1 JTR and I had a new door to walk through practically every night .
2 McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’
3 I had a new man to help me now .
4 Another time , Wilma 's parents took us both to the Teatro Regio to see La Traviata , my first opera , and I had a new dress for the occasion .
5 Now I had a new mission in life — to ensure that every tinker caravan in Ireland contained a picture of a donkey dancing while a devil played the fiddle .
6 Oh no , no I 'd , I had a new case of furniture , I had some of this furniture there .
7 I had a new curate to do my work — Arthur Nicholls , a young man of twenty-eight .
8 I had a new top on , and I 'd washed my hair , I was dead pleased she 'd noticed .
9 Therefore , next time they spawned I left the eggs where they were until I had a new tank prepared for the adults .
10 I had a new bedroom suite did n't I ?
11 I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job .
12 When I came out of my room again I had a new identity , I was a new person .
13 No we did n't because I had bought various things , I like antiques so does my husband , I 'd bought various things while he was away in this erm , the card table and er , I had a new place of stuff , er but since we 've been , but we had odd chairs did n't we ?
14 Yes , erm , I had a new face made eleven years ago , and I 'm very happy with this face .
15 At the end of one term , one of them said she had a new friend called Lisa .
16 She had a new child 's seat for her car , the moment she got home , after the flowers for her sister , her young grandson was going for a drive .
17 We never wanted to be the first one when she had a new stick of make-up as she did n't take the cellophane wrapper off .
18 ‘ I really loved her and to be with her again in the group was quite nice , even though she had a new boyfriend .
19 She had a new interest ; she was launching a huge campaign .
20 To help her , she had a new maid , Teresa , older and more confident than Maria , who had left to be a nurse-maid .
21 Mrs Hamlet , who now lives in Aldford Way , Winsford , began to rebuild her life and was delighted when she had a new baby daughter , Carina , from her second marriage to Robert .
22 She strained away , but saw that her breasts were thrust out further , and now she had a new sensation to worry about — the liquid feeling in her loins as if he 'd built a small fire there .
23 She had a new sink and new bright yellow cabinets to go with them .
24 Suddenly , she had a new set of memories , crowding in on her own .
25 But in today if you if you had a new landfill site developed today .
26 Which are the sectors where you feel , if you had a new settlement , er there would be potential er problems if that 's the right word , for the implementation of your regeneration policies in Leeds .
27 Change the observations you were going to make and you had a new situation , even if the system to be observed remained the same .
28 In fact we had a new customer waiting for the certificate in order to give us a job . ’
29 Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine
30 Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm
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