Example sentences of "had [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eventually he had built a new being from dismembered corpses , and had re-animated it . |
| 32 | ( Slovakia had adopted a new Constitution in September — see p. 39105 . ) |
| 33 | However , the company had adopted a new accounting policy on the treatment of exploration and development expenditure and changed its year-end to the calendar year used by the industry for exploration budgets and profits cover just nine months , against 12 last time . |
| 34 | However , within six months of our treating her , she had regrown a new hip joint . |
| 35 | Along with other scholars Frazer had produced a new view of classical studies which would , in Eliot 's view , have a deep effect on future literature . |
| 36 | Deportation can not be used to achieve extradition , and the Home Secretary could not use his powers to revoke television licences where people had bought a new licence early in order to avoid a price increase . |
| 37 | Last summer one of my friends lent me a C.B. and an old aerial as he had bought a new set and some more of my friends had C.B.s . |
| 38 | She had bought a new handbag this morning , a neat , compact little thing that matched perfectly with the new dress and shoes she was wearing . |
| 39 | Also Goblander had needed a new exhaust system and they had that done immediately , not in the local Nunes garage though but at a big , impersonal place in Colchester . |
| 40 | Since Rosie 's return to the Watermen , Patrick had had a new lease of life . |
| 41 | That Duck had opened a new avenue of literary expression is evident from the number of poems published in the 1730s , often addressed to Duck , in which poets assert the literary possibilities of their own labour . |
| 42 | The partnership had opened a new phosphorus plant in Oldbury in Worcestershire in 1851 , which Albright took over when it was dissolved at the end of 1854 . |
| 43 | The publication of It had opened a new front and brought in new troops , and different ones , to the Hoggarts who had testified for Lawrence 's novel . |
| 44 | Nothing explicit had been said but she knew her relationship with Urquhart had crossed a new frontier : he had become an enemy . |
| 45 | when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples . |
| 46 | Because the governor 's palace was in a state of very sad repair and they had to put a new roof in it . |
| 47 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 48 | And although Thornton seemed the obvious choice to the outside world , relationships with him had reached a new low in October 1985 . |
| 49 | They had proposed a new rule to the effect that , if during an interrogation , a suspect omitted to mention some fact which would exculpate him or her , but kept this back until the trial , the court or jury could infer that the evidence was untrue ( Criminal Law Revision Committee , 1972 ) . |
| 50 | Even as early as 1147 it was apparent that the crusading movement had provided a new sense of aristocratic cohesion in the realm . |
| 51 | Substantial foreign aid had helped ; weather conditions seemed likely to give good crop yields , and the early returns of the spring harvest had provided a new supply of food . |
| 52 | S&N , not for the first time , enjoyed a heady ferment as , once again , the market was gripped by the story that the Elders ' 23.7 per cent shareholding had found a new home . |
| 53 | Dexter guessed that she had found a new man . |
| 54 | The schoolboy writer of nature articles had found a new purpose around which to weave his dreams of a future with his ‘ anemone maiden , . |
| 55 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 56 | ‘ Our Frankie had found a new friend ; guess who ? ’ |
| 57 | Whilst writing this throughout 1986 , it was clear that the Club had found a new style and confidence , although , just as in 1907 ( and on occasions since ) , the new furnishing is not universally popular . |
| 58 | HE HAD found a new publisher and his second novel was out . |
| 59 | Valerie Cass had found a new role to play . |
| 60 | The first group , that of ordinary soldiers , had found a new camaraderie at the Front , which had led ‘ to a loosening of ties to the Party and its affiliations at home ’ . |