Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] 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 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 6 | An ambitious programme involving British Waterways , the City Council and private developers was begun and the docks headed for a new future . |
| 7 | Yesterday , as he prepared for a new TV series starting on Sunday , Sir David said he was ‘ truly blessed ’ with an honour . |
| 8 | Housekeeper Anne Jackson told how Mr Elton had turned the sitting room of his £750,000 London flat into an office as he desperately hunted for a new job . |
| 9 | Several years ago , when General Motors reached agreement on a contract with the United Auto Workers that called for a new relationship based on cooperation and shared sacrifice , and then , on the same day , announced a new formula for generous executive bonuses , long-time union members simply nodded to themselves . |
| 10 | As faith in the League declined , some called for a new alliance system — and a new Government — to stand up to fascist aggression . |
| 11 | Pale , Bosnia : BOSNIAN Serbs called for a new peace plan for Bosnia after declaring the current one dead yesterday but Muslim-led government leaders said this meant the West no longer had any excuse to avoid decisive action . |
| 12 | One of the bodies which strongly challenged the costs — the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy ( CIPFA ) — yesterday called for a new study of the costings . |
| 13 | Instead he called for a new security order based either on " trilateral Soviet-Japanese-US consultations and concrete agreements " , or a five-power conference involving China , India , Japan , the Soviet Union and the USA . |
| 14 | He called for a new partnership economy with the private and public sectors working together . |
| 15 | ‘ Our oil-fired central heating system was showing signs of age , so the National Trust 's adviser on Conservation Heating looked for a new system which would be efficient , cost effective and environmentally sound . |
| 16 | According to this view , instead of representing workers or peasants , they spoke for a new class spawned by advancing capitalism , the class from which they themselves sprang — the intelligentsia . |
| 17 | And then , because she could n't bear to quarrel with him the night before she left for a new life , she said , ‘ I 'm wearing your mother 's brooch , Fran . |
| 18 | She searched for a new subject of conversation . |
| 19 | No you said for the new office . |
| 20 | Edouard longed for a new collection , for revolutionary designs that would set competitors like Cartier by the ears ; designs that would reflect the post-war world and which would use to the full the latest technology . |
| 21 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 22 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 23 | I wished for a new dress as I washed and ironed my old yellow home-made mini for the hundredth time . |