Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as bringing on the new foal , Margaret has taken on another exciting challenge . |
| 2 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 3 | When you picking up the new car ? |
| 4 | Such embankments are often transitory structures , but sand martins , among the first of our summer migrants to return , are adept at seeking out the new season 's workings . |
| 5 | ‘ I think he 's testing out the new man . |
| 6 | At lunchtime the following day , Tuesday , February 12 , the police are breaking down the new lock which Tommy has attached to Christopher 's purple front door . |
| 7 | Though Coleridge continued at the King 's School for several months , delighting his mother by pointing out the new master 's faulty knowledge of grammar , in April 1782 Francis Buller , a family friend and later an eminent judge , obtained for him a presentation to Christ 's Hospital in London ( the Blue Coat School ) , ‘ there to be educated , and brought up among other poor children ’ . |
| 8 | But too many of them have been weaned on the habit of chopping up the New Testament into bits ( sorting out the sources , contemporary themes and ideologies of Aramaic Palestine or the Hellenistic world ) so that they can no longer see the scriptures as a sacred text aflame with the divine drama . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration , previously held by Tove Strand Gerhardsen , was split into two , with Gunnar Berge taking over the new Ministry of Local Government and Labour and Oddny Alexandersen the Ministry of Government Administration . |
| 10 | If anxieties are ironed out before a transfer takes place , the employee is less likely to be under the pressure of family concerns when taking up the new appointment . |
| 11 | As early as July 1728 Wade was able to report : ‘ I am now with all possible diligence carrying on the new road for wheel-carriages between Dunkeld and Inverness , of about 80 English measured miles [ 128 km ] ’ , but it was 1731 which saw the creation of his masterpiece , the road from Dalwhinnie to Fort Augustus , in the middle of the Great Glen . |
| 12 | In a display of bravado , the IRA staged a publicity stunt , showing off the new device to two freelance journalists . |
| 13 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 14 | Pierre Encreve , a professor of linguistics , has been charged with setting up the new foundation , which will serve to fulfill Andre Chastel 's 1983 commitment to found an institute for the history of art and culture , on the lines of London 's Courtauld Institute . |
| 15 | The season came down to Montreal and Brabham was trying out the new version of the famous Cotsworth engine instead of its disastrous Alfa Romeos . |
| 16 | FAITH Brown 's trying out the new blow-up bra ( you 'll have to puff a little harder , dearie ) . |
| 17 | But with four wraps any mistakes just tend to snowball , so it 's a very interesting problem and a good string for trying out the new technology . |
| 18 | It had immediately bombed and Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail , had had to be brought in to rescue it by throwing out the new design ideas and making it look as old-fashioned as its daily counterpart . |
| 19 | Since the hastily-arranged press conference to launch the discussion document setting out the new scheme , the vice-chairman of Suffolk Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group has been pouring over the fine detail of the Ministry documents , and he likes what he reads , calling it ‘ a very exciting package . ’ |
| 20 | And Ferrier was always around , answering letters and the phone , shipping out the new magazine , rolling joints , making the coffee , doing , she says , the dogsbody things . |
| 21 | If there is a problem with the job then , if the criticism is valid , take this into account while working out the new job specification . |