Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv prt] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 2 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 3 | There was the time , too , when he kept a Wellington side very much under wraps before a Ranfurly Shield challenge against Auckland , and then took the hugh gamble of removing his best five-eighths , Steve Pokere , from fly-half to centre , and bringing in a new youngster — a gamble which failed quite spectacularly . |
| 4 | And to eat there — how she longed to , to drop the few years that made her different from Cad , to lose the ripeness and rotundities that would always make her different from Cati , who was , really , almost boy-like with her stringbean limbs , yet not quite boyish either , angelic rather ; she was not afflicted with the need Rosa felt , the gap opening inside her , where a longing for something other than what lay within her sights sat in occupation , banging her drum and marking out a new rhythm and new steps for Rosa 's spinning wants , calling down the corridors of Rosa 's body to her innermost inguinal life , till her blood rang to the beat . |
| 5 | Banishing an old life and taking on a new life and character when the time seemed ripe was a very Indian thing to do . |
| 6 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 7 | Remove the fitting and thoroughly clean up the two ends of pipe with wire wool , before smearing on flux and putting on a new fitting . |
| 8 | Her first challenge will be trying to account for the project 's funding , providing health statistics and setting up a new bookkeeping system for the hospital that is simple enough for people to use when she has gone . |
| 9 | In 1990 a central government agency was set up as an instrument of denationalization of state enterprises , and a statute was passed regulating the issue of securities to the public and setting up a new stock exchange . |
| 10 | The Royal Commission on Justice has recommended changes to include curtailing a defendant 's automatic right to be tried by jury and setting up a new appeals procedure . |