Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 2 | Housekeeper Anne Jackson told how Mr Elton had turned the sitting room of his £750,000 London flat into an office as he desperately hunted for a new job . |
| 3 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 4 | One of the bodies which strongly challenged the costs — the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy ( CIPFA ) — yesterday called for a new study of the costings . |
| 5 | As Serbia yesterday voted on a new president , incumbent Slobodan Milosevic , accused of war crimes by Mr Eagleburger , was neck and neck with the prime minister of what is left of Yugoslavia , Milan Panic . |
| 6 | The conference also agreed to a new co-operation arrangement on fisheries surveillance allowing patrol boats to arrest illegal fishermen in the territorial waters of another member state . |
| 7 | Support also grew for a new political movement , the environmentalists or Greens . |
| 8 | The company also participated in a new gas discovery adjacent to the Caister field and this new discovery , named the Hunter field , will be tied-in to the Caister production facilities . |
| 9 | Charles looked at Alex 's haggard face , which now glowed with a new light . |
| 10 | Beside the stone shell of the Flemyngs ' new mill , at the back of a piece of ground it now shared with a new carpet factory , long-haired cattle were browsing desultorily among mudded grass and stacks of timber . |
| 11 | This switch to feature films inevitably led to a new preoccupation with fiction and with developing screen fictions that took up the themes and conventions of respectable literary and theatrical tastes . |
| 12 | He now embarked on a new recording contract for Capitol , and proved wrong all the critics who 'd said he was just emulating Crosby when he developed his own new determined style which culminated in 1955 with his album Songs For Swinging Lovers , one of the first best-selling LPs . |
| 13 | Next morning they attended the Requiem Mass for their dead colleague who had been dressed by the monks for burial and now lay in a new pine coffin in front of the sanctuary steps of the abbey church . |
| 14 | The sale needs to be revamped , even relaunched with a new name , and aggressively marketed . |
| 15 | At Athens itself , around the summer solstice , the image of Athena Polis was veiled , taken down , disrobed and wished , before being ceremonially reclothed in a new robe specially woven by the arrhephoroi . |
| 16 | The Frenchman , before turning to her sons , let his glance fall pointedly for a moment to the swell of her breasts tightly bodiced beneath a new Fifth Avenue day dress of sheer white silk chiffon ; then he smiled secretly at her again and this undisguised expression of passionate interest brought a faint flush to her face . |
| 17 | These intellectual breakthroughs actually coincided with a new social anxiety over incest throughout Europe . |
| 18 | A catering student in Seaham had to be taken to hospital after he accidentally sat on a new knife . |