Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the new [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The more sophisticated provincial dealers tried to acquire the new denomination at the end of the year as a means of hoarding .
2 From there he went to Sion House , Middlesex , where he helped to plant the new conservatory .
3 Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine .
4 Thames Water say they 'll come down hard on anyone caught breaking the new drought order which has come into force today .
5 Researchers at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford helped develop the new vaccine .
6 He also tried to prevent the new grammar schools from being reserved for the sons of the gentry .
7 She 'd lavished the new moisturiser on her face , outlined her mouth with a muted pink lipstick , and for the finishing touch gathered her hair into a loose knot on top of her head with a length of black velvet purchased along with the cosmetics .
8 He seemed to regard the New Testament as a stormy sea in which he was tossed about in a little boat as he explored .
9 By 1989–90 the budget was £15.54 million ( 0.53 per cent of the total government expenditure on civil science and technology research and development ) , with an additional £760,000 over two years for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and £5 million pledged to fund the new centre for the prediction of climate change announced by Mrs Thatcher in her UN speech on the environment .
10 All the defendants , with the exception of Giorgio Bonsanti , Soprintendente at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure , and Otello Conti , the director of the company contracted to lay the new paving , were found guilty of violating the law which makes provision for ‘ damage to national archaeological and artistic heritage ’ ( Article 733 of the Penal Code ) .
11 They would be at risk from the vastly increased number of cars and heavy lorries expected to use the new tunnel .
12 Derby found a means of holding his leader to ransom : a meeting of Lancashire Unionists which threatened to disown the new policy was adjourned for three weeks at his suggestion .
13 Maria Carlita Rex Doran began developing the new fuel in 1980 following a government plea to scientists to devise new indigenous power sources to meet the country 's severe energy shortage .
14 That term did n't last long , though , and ‘ Plate Tectonics ’ really came into being when scientists all over the world , such as Isacks , Oliver , Sykes , Le Pichon and Morgan ( to name but a few ) , began to apply the new way of thinking to specific parts of the globe .
15 After the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 the USSR ordered the local communist party ( Tudeh ) to support the Ayatollah Khomeini , and even began to supply the new regime with weapons .
16 But that did n't satisfy Mr Major when he decided to sue the New Statesman and Scallyway for their reports .
17 The colliery owners undertook to support the new Union by giving it sole negotiating rights ; by agreeing to deduct the Union contribution from wages ; by contributing 12,500 to the Union 's pension fund and by harrying known members of the NMA .
18 You started writing the new album , ‘ Secret Story ’ , a long time ago .
19 Hoping as always to avoid trouble , the Goldsmiths decided to require the new Schoolmaster to be examined before being appointed ; this was duly done , and Joseph Whittle , a graduate of Brasenose College , Oxford , took up his position with effect from 28th September .
20 He felt sure he could sweet-talk Antonio and get the 25 per cent equity he needed to put the new deal to bed .
21 ‘ Is that one of the reasons why you were keen to invest in the first place , even one of the reasons why you decided to back the new housing development ? ’
22 He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return .
23 It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ .
24 Here we faced a familiar dilemma : the Department of Transport and the county council were seeking to improve a trunk road and , seeing a large area of parkland , decided to take the new road through the park , cutting off a large swathe near the main entrance gates .
25 And demanded to see the new king .
26 As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead .
27 Both parties tried to organize support for their position , but the great majority of market women supported the Society of Women Market Vendors , an independent organization formed to oppose the new tariff system .
28 At first , the Attorney General did not intend to permit this , but as members indicated on a vote that they preferred to debate the new text , the Attorney General allowed to propose it as follows :
29 It was usually a fortnight ; she liked to see the New Year in .
30 In addition , it is most important that the case management service remains faithful to its models , or at least , if changes are required these are explicitly acknowledged and change measures and performance indicators altered to reflect the new focus .
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