Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the new " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved in to the new , roomier accommodation . |
| 2 | The Sierra Leone government promised the AfDB there would be strict environmental protection measures , but despite such assurances , loggers , farmers and charcoal-burners moved in along the new road , eating into the rainforest . |
| 3 | An interesting natural experiment arose when the entire school moved over to the new pathway course in 1987 . |
| 4 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 5 | Men in regular employment found their real wages rising and many families moved out to the new housing estates , where evidence rapidly came to light of female depression arising primarily from physical isolation . |
| 6 | GUATEMALA : During his visit to London recently Bruce Harris , executive director of Casa Alianza ( Covenant House ) , a centre in Guatemala City which cares for street children , dropped in on the new Guatemalan Ambassador . |
| 7 | When the processing requested by a form has been completed the request form will be returned to the lexicographers with the Completion Confirmed on Date filled in by the New OED Computer Group . |
| 8 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 9 | Morris turned up for the new campaign with a sensational 133 , the first 100 off 60 balls and the second 50 off only 16 , against Minor Counties champions Staffordshire in a pre-season testimonial match for Barnett . |
| 10 | Koreans flooded in from the new colony in search of work and livelihood . |
| 11 | Shortly after midday the train reached Llangynog , where the passengers got out onto the new station platform . |
| 12 | This is best explained by reference to the diagram , topsoil being removed from a small area at a time and the chalk quarried down to the new level . |
| 13 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 14 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 15 | Derek and me went along to the new wans Christening and he was like a tink ! |
| 16 | The organisers were looking for a nurse who could show how her work — both before and after the changes brought in with the New Contract — had helped her patients . |
| 17 | In August 1953 Sir John Nott-Bower took over as the new Commissioner at Scotland Yard and was reported as saying that he would ‘ rip the covers off all London 's filth spots ’ . |
| 18 | She looked over to the new machine . |
| 19 | Said Jolosa : ‘ It is bad being the first player sent off in the new league , but I was a marked man from the start . |
| 20 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 21 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 22 | Ross , on his return to Britain , went back into the new route business as an outsider to the establishment scene — a position I know only too well . |
| 23 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 24 | Australia , put in on the new surface , struggled : both openers played on , and with Border collecting his second duck of the series , the home side slumped to 81 for 6 before the Victorians , Jones and Hughes , steered them to the relative prosperity of 145 all out . |
| 25 | First , Easington Secondary Modern School for Boys was opened in 1952 ; the former elementary schools in and around Banbury gave up to the new campus their boys over the age of eleven . |
| 26 | Some leaders spoke out against the new trend ; in a paper on preaching delivered at a Free Church Council meeting the quixotic Joseph Parker defended congregational applause during a sermon because it encouraged the preacher and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through the listeners . |
| 27 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 28 | That was a case , I worked in a hotel for years and years and it closed down with the new bypass and that , and just a girl beside me , she was coming for an interview , to the B M K and I came with her . |
| 29 | Wilcock set off for the New World . |
| 30 | It will start with something like that which appears in the version set out in the New English Bible : ’ When all things began , the Word already was . ’ |