Example sentences of "he [vb past] the new [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then he attacked the new belief in collectivism as a political , not an ecclesiastical cry : socialism would produce a ‘ kingdom of Lilliputians , not men ’ . |
2 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
3 | He met the new left , was sometimes intrigued by it , but it was a different , and largely incomprehensible , world . |
4 | Later he became the New Yorker 's music critic and went on to be music editor of the Listener . |
5 | When he asked the new tsar to give land to the peasants he made plain the other . |
6 | and he said it 's got worse since he got the new switchboard operator , which makes you think |
7 | He built the new headquarters by the river here and everything looked rosy . |
8 | When he walked into the office the next day he found the new proprietor 's considerable bulk squeezed into his own chair , took the point and resigned . |
9 | The store manager said he found the new technology more labour intensive and less flexible . |
10 | Though he found the new car handled very well , it did n't immediately have the success it might have had in F1 , partly because Jackie missed a number of races after his Spa accident ; it improved the following year with a Cosworth engine , but by then he was already thinking of what his next move in F1 would be . |
11 | He regarded the new ideas as a trick to give even more power to the manufacturers — and perhaps his political analysis was not at fault , since the exponents of these ideas were largely middle-class . |
12 | But he maintained the new centres will be ‘ different from anything that has ever been provided before ’ . |
13 | For Christ 's Hospital he designed the new grammar school ( 1793 , demolished ) — receiving a gratuity of 100 guineas ‘ for his great attention during the building ’ because he had charged at a rate of only 2½ per cent instead of the usual 5 per cent — and additions to the school in Hertford ( 1800 ) , and also made designs for various ambitious unexecuted schemes for redeveloping the main buildings . |
14 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
15 | With Charles Rennie , the civil engineer , he surveyed the new harbour for Saltcoats and the line for the Glasgow to Ardrossan canal . |
16 | He surveyed the new world sprawled in front of him . |
17 | But if so I am not wholly convinced that he adopted the new Liberalism . |
18 | He opposed the new clause because it would cover only half of the Scottish bus industry — that half which the Bill will privatise . |
19 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
20 | He acknowledged the new arrival with a languid wave of the hand . |
21 | He claimed the new charges were still ‘ significantly less ’ than the average total cost of a single prescription item . |
22 | He liked to finish it each morning before he fetched the new day 's papers . |
23 | But he joined the New Party and so it er he spiked his guns for a long while . |
24 | He welcomed the new chairman , Dr. Alan Wilson . |
25 | Bob Johnston , chief inspector at the Department of Economic Development 's Trading Standards branch , said he welcomed the new laws . |
26 | He declared the new administration 's " first step " to be to " re-activate our industry " and to " give people a freer hand for greater participation in economic activities " . |
27 | Gaunt was determined to defend Wycliffe , and he ordered the new Marshal , Henry Percy , to arrest anyone who opposed his heterodox protégé . |
28 | So successful was he that he named the new style after the insect . |
29 | He edited the new journal , Aerocraft ( 1908–10 ) , and in 1908 designed and tested , on his own airstrip in Fambridge , Essex , three light monoplanes , two of which left the ground . |
30 | He saw the new drugs as a threat to his well-being , and lived in dread of the day when they might be prescribed for him . |