Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reasonable enough , but I 'd just signed a new contract with the company . |
| 2 | ‘ And we 'd just bought a new car . ’ |
| 3 | During this time I lost 8 ¾ pounds and came away feeling a new woman ! |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , she 's been here since the beginning of the year — she came over to start a new life after she 'd had problems back home . |
| 5 | I put on some gold dangly earrings I 'd found in the bottom of my bag and came out feeling a new woman . |
| 6 | I suppose that at that moment , the night before I stepped ashore to build a new life , it was time to say goodbye to the old . |
| 7 | France now came out openly on the American side and began actively to prepare a new invasion to take advantage of England 's difficulties overseas . |
| 8 | Five of his colleagues backed the change of policy , but two broke away to form a new party . |
| 9 | The first multiparty general election since 1959 was held on May 12 , 1991 , and resulted in a victory for the Nepali Congress Party which went on to form a new government under Girija Prasad Koirala . |
| 10 | Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 11 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 12 | The SEA was a compromise between those countries such as France and Germany who wanted a new Treaty on European Union , and the UK and Denmark who did not want a new Treaty , but simply the implementation of the White Paper in order to create an SEM . |
| 13 | Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house . |
| 14 | Although the new mayors tended to be younger men , they did not represent a new class of people . |
| 15 | It said that the Government had no policy for industry and no policy for the country , and that if they did not take a new direction there would be no British-owned manufacturing industry left in this country — now answer ! |
| 16 | Victorine protested that she did not need a new scarf and that green was not her colour . |
| 17 | He told a Westminster press gallery lunch that the problem was not the properly prepared Queen 's Speech programme of bills , but the demand for instant legislation following a serious event , with ministers being deemed failures if they did not promise a new bill . |
| 18 | In line with the steady upward trend in the use of the Music Room over several years , the readership again increased this year , rising to 1,127 , with the number of items issued also reaching a new high point at 3,129 . |
| 19 | They did n't want a new left-wing government sitting on the canal-bank . |
| 20 | When grandfather died the farmer had allowed my grandmother and her two sons , still in their teens , to stay on in the cottage because he did n't need a new grieve ; he had an unmarried son in the big farmhouse , ready to take on the job . |
| 21 | In December 1792 the Goldsmiths met again to appoint a new Master , Hoyle , a graduate of Pembroke College , Cambridge , re-applied , and this time was successful . |
| 22 | Sartre took the opposite course to Merleau-Ponty and sought instead to define a new authentic Marxism . |
| 23 | I was reminded of the Brecht poem in which the politicians decide that they can not trust the people and that they had better elect a new one . |
| 24 | Paz Zamora had already announced a new electoral law and a single national register ( RUN ) on June 30 , designed to guarantee the impartiality of electoral procedures and to increase the number of registered voters , especially among ethnic minorities and those resident abroad . |
| 25 | His editorship ended in 1880 following a change of ownership , but in 1877 Knowles had already founded a new magazine , the Nineteenth Century , which became even more influential , bringing Knowles again into the centre of contemporary thought and politics . |
| 26 | But the teams later discovered that the conduit was dry , suggesting that the lava had already found a new course . |
| 27 | Jonadab had already hired a new third lad , or ‘ thoddy ’ as they were known , and there was little more for them to do in the town : neither was interested in the attractions of sideshows or stalls . |
| 28 | Dickinson had already set a new training record earlier in the 1982–3 season when sending out the winners of twelve races on Boxing Day 1982 . |
| 29 | Now , he had just appointed a new Cabinet and he insisted that the would not leave until it had been formally approved by the Majles , or parliament , as the constitution demanded . |
| 30 | There was an inspirational maths teacher , Mr. Tahta , and the school had just built a new maths room , which the maths set had as their classroom . |