Example sentences of "and [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she then ‘ picks up ’ the open stitches ( a fine circular needle is wonderful for this ) , returns these stitches to the machine and knits a new rib ( going downwards ) or whatever is required . |
| 2 | Ramsay was shrewd enough to capitalise on his native gifts and develop a new style . |
| 3 | Chicago-based advertising screens on shopping trolleys specialist VideOcart Inc has persuaded IBM Corp to let it restructure its $42m debt to IBM , to provide the company with relief from near term debt payments and enable it to attain its business goals : a $22m debt would replace the existing debt , giving VideOcart a one-time balance sheet gain of $20m ; terms of the new agreement include waiving all principal and interest payments until July 31 , and VideOcart retains its rights under a previous agreement with IBM that allows early repayment of the new $22m debt at any time for $17m in cash ; VideOcart also agreed to cancel a warrant granted last year to IBM to buy 540,000 VideOcart shares and grants a new warrant to buy 600,000 shares at $1.75 each ; from August 31 to December 31 , interest only payments will be due , but payments of $500,000 a month will be due beginning on January 31 1994 and will continue for 35 months , and a balloon payment will be due on December 31 1996 , although IBM has the option to convert the balance of the debt into VideOcart common shares at $8 a share on that date . |
| 4 | The Law Commission , in their Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) , recognised many of the weaknesses in the present law on merchantable quality ( paras 3.4 – 6 ) and recommended a new definition to be adopted in all contracts involving supply of goods . |
| 5 | A £4.1 million project has been awarded to design and build a new South Stand at West Ham United 's Upton Park football ground in east London . |
| 6 | ARGENTINA is paying a Swiss company more than $100 million to develop and build a new type of remotely controlled torpedo . |
| 7 | Its proposals included ways to eliminate the certificate and introduce a new structure of undergraduate and in-service education , incorporating an integrated phase of probationary service . |
| 8 | Input/output controller board manufacturer , Digiboard Inc , Eden Prairie , Minnesota will release a Unix version of PC/2e — its two-port intelligent asynchronous board for desktops — and introduce a new Unix version of its fax software this quarter . |
| 9 | President François Mitterrand also announced on Oct. 22 , in return for an undertaking by farmers to end violent protests , that the government would introduce border controls on imported meat , reduce land and inheritance taxes , encourage the growing of crops for the production of environmentally friendly fuel , and introduce a new pension scheme to allow farmers to retire at 55 . |
| 10 | Er and rush off and make a new will as soon as you can as well as . |
| 11 | So what better time to consider you sleeping facilities , and make a new bed , following GUY DALTON 'S experiences and design . |
| 12 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 13 | You should do what I 've done , cut yourself completely free of him and make a new life for yourself . ’ |
| 14 | You can take the noun John , then add " s and make a new word , " John 's " , meaning " belonging to John " . |
| 15 | Why not , my wife says , knock a hole through the boys ' bedroom wall , pinch a three foot six strip off it and make a new landing passage and extend the walk-in cupboard , forward to take up the old landing and sideways to build a space out to the main part of the stairs . |
| 16 | He discovered the theatre score in the Academy 's own library , just in time to stop the presses and make a new edition based on it . |
| 17 | Perhaps she ought to go away , and make a new start somewhere else . |
| 18 | Florrie made up her mind : she must buy some material and make a new set of curtains . |
| 19 | Can you help out ? he 's paying in gold and you can melt it down and make a new battleaxe that will never go rusty . |
| 20 | Each place has a special story to tell and offers a new experience of history : from neolithic man to Roman invasion , from William the Conqueror to the Civil War , from the Restoration to Queen Victoria and beyond . |
| 21 | He also took the trouble to buy and read a new book of theology which Ramsey at that moment published ; an account of the development of English religious thought from the late Victorian age to the age of William Temple — From Gore to Temple . |
| 22 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 23 | Turnout was estimated as some 60 per cent in the elections , the first to be held under a new electoral law [ see pp. 37274 ; 37707 ] and using a new voter roll which increased the total electorate to some 36,000,000 eligible voters . |
| 24 | It was in fact going to be a ‘ complex ’ process , since it would require ‘ permanent , steady and patient activity to delete from people 's minds the remains of the past , the obsolete conceptions , mentalities and customs , and to cultivate a new attitude towards work , life and society . ’ |
| 25 | Plans are now in motion to stage exhibitions featuring paintings from the collection in the Museum and Art Gallery in the city centre , where they are certain to attract attention to the University 's artistic riches and forge a new link between town and gown . |
| 26 | But he endorsed the belief of most people at ringside that Lewis can be the man to end Britain 's search for a world heavyweight champion , and bring a new order to the division . |
| 27 | He is dressed in expensive clothing and drives a new car : Judy Gomez refers to him as a pimp , thus indicating his involvement in sexual as well as social exploitation . |
| 28 | He concluded that the country had become over-extended in its global commitments , and announced a new approach . |
| 29 | The CSR appointed a national commission to take charge of the election process and announced a new election calendar [ see pp. 38802-03 for earlier postponement ] . |
| 30 | In a decree issued on June 19 King Hussein accepted the resignation of the government of Prime Minister Mudar Badran and announced a new Cabinet headed by Taher al-Masri . |