Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [art] new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got ourselves a new ball park , ’ said the man from Detroit . |
| 2 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 3 | The Sinn Fein man claimed two plain-clothes men approached Mr Fox in Thomas Street , Dungannon on September 2 and promised him a new house if he agreed to work for them . |
| 4 | ‘ We obedience-trained him and found him a new home . |
| 5 | They met ; he found her company agreeable , she found him a new slogan . |
| 6 | She found him a new toothbrush in its unbroken wrap , and said , ‘ It 's a pity about Sir George . |
| 7 | He also got himself a new caddie , Froggy Davies . |
| 8 | Mechanics pushed our aircraft into a hangar and machined us a new stud for our exhaust pipe . |
| 9 | They showed me a new way of life . |
| 10 | I taught her a new move and she practised it on me but she missed and got me in the and I fell on the ground . |
| 11 | Suffocated and uninspired by their hometown , Shake shook themselves up , hopped over to London , grabbed themselves a new moniker and , like , got their heads together in a chaotic kinda way . |
| 12 | And when the time come , they got her a new kidney , and it never took . |
| 13 | Apart from her father and her brother Niall who had come down from the watchtower , she was the tallest person present , and her fine clothes lent her a new self-confidence . |
| 14 | Sir Richard Hadlee is another who was nowhere near his knighthood as Test cricket 's leading wicket-taker when Notts first tossed him the new ball . |
| 15 | It was beautiful , but both House and Seven knew what The New Hope really was . |
| 16 | There were old traditions of Swiss independence , but the new cohesion given to the Confederation by constitutional changes in 1848 and 1874 almost made it a new nation . |
| 17 | Roland gave me a new tennis racquet ( which I know he could n't afford because Moonstone is ‘ on the brink ’ ) which is a great improvement on my last one , and an encouragement to get out on court . |
| 18 | But I did quite well then — he gave me a new watch , the year before a set of matching underwear . |
| 19 | Abraham bought me new clothes , gave me a new place to live , and sent me the finest food . |
| 20 | ‘ E took me out this mornin' an' bought me a new dress . |
| 21 | Well you bought me the new vacuum cleaner . |
| 22 | This gave them a new experience of evaporation , as well as time to draw on their prior experiences . |
| 23 | It gave them a new sense of opening opportunity , a new reason for raising standards and expectations , new cause to doubt the wisdom of a system which excluded many children from the chance of a full academic education from the age of eleven , and a new hope . |
| 24 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 25 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 26 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 27 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 28 | Her bruised face gave her a new look of vulnerability . |
| 29 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 30 | Her marriage to Prince Charles gave her a new security , not only in giving her status , but also because she could at first rely on him as something of a father figure , or at any rate a slightly square older brother . |