Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 2 | They had , it appears , expended upwards of £100 to that date and Millford asked for a new lease upon Fleming Royalties in Shaw 's and Wildhagen 's names . |
| 3 | Cope argued for a new theology in which the Creator has delegated His power to living things by giving them the ability to shape the future through their purposeful response to the environment . |
| 4 | An ambitious programme involving British Waterways , the City Council and private developers was begun and the docks headed for a new future . |
| 5 | Bill Moran moved into a new development in Beaconsfield 2½ years ago . |
| 6 | A communication problem between a drawing office and a laboratory arose when the latter moved into a new building . |
| 7 | A communication problem between a drawing office and a laboratory arose when the latter moved into a new building . |
| 8 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 9 | Then a few months later he got a job with a trucking company , moved into a new house and eventually got married . |
| 10 | Thus , as down in the laboratory annexe Ari struggled and swam with a new sensation , above her head , Tammuz Malamute plundered the willing body of Zambia Crevecoeur , causing the building to reverberate with sexual emissions of several different types . |
| 11 | After 27 years at Sywell Airport , the Barnstormers Flying Circus have packed their tent and moved to a new home at Spanhoe Airfield , near RAF Wittering in the north of Northamptonshire . |
| 12 | One of the first he had received from Sloane reported on a new hothouse at Chelsea and listed the exotics already growing there . |
| 13 | In It52 Lee Harris reported on a new play by Jane Arden at the Arts Lab . |
| 14 | After a pause , while she knitted and changed to a new ball of wool , she surprisingly said , ‘ Oh dear . ’ |
| 15 | They require a genuine allegiance to Christ demonstrated by a new quality of life . |
| 16 | The second clerk behind the desk was a man Bodie recognised as a new recruit to the forces of CI5 . |
| 17 | Yesterday , as he prepared for a new TV series starting on Sunday , Sir David said he was ‘ truly blessed ’ with an honour . |
| 18 | The move came as a new report revealed there are enough vehicles in London to fill a 75-lane M25 . |
| 19 | We experimented with a new Editor who wrote and commissioned interesting and often controversial articles , but this approach was competitive with the British Sunday press and I discovered that " controversial " can be distasteful . |
| 20 | THE FTSE index of shares slumped 34.5 to 2337.7 yesterday as the £ came under a new attack in the Euro-currency battles . |
| 21 | The 1990s shepherded in a new era of compassion . |
| 22 | Rupert Murdoch 's mass circulation tabloid stooped to a new level of vicious scaremongering when it seemed that Neil Kinnock might just succeed in leading Labour back into government . |
| 23 | WALL Street roared to a new record yesterday on the back of better-than-expected first quarter profits at computer giant International Business Machines and hopes of lower interest rates . |
| 24 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 25 | Whenever the circus came to a new town he used to dress up in his costume and go out into the streets with a clown on stilts and do a turn . |
| 26 | When orders came to a new appointment there were regrets all round . |
| 27 | H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) did not consider Ophiopristis to be a distinct genus and transferred the type species O. hirsuta to Ophiacantha the remaining species O. cervicornis , O. permixta and O. axiologia together with a new species O. imperfectum he transferred to a new genus Ophioprium with the type species O. cervicornis . |
| 28 | Looking at the particular issue of derelict areas erm within this area , er Hambledon does n't erm believe that there are any areas which could be reclaimed or enhanced by a new settlement . |
| 29 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 30 | A few feet away the corridor opened into a new space . |