Example sentences of "it [was/were] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start from scratch this spring with a thorough clean-out and then treat the pond as though it were a new one , going through the necessary maturation process . |
| 2 | Hermit crabs , however , do not simply put on a shell as if it were a new pullover ; they show two remarkable adaptations to the problems of ‘ wearing ’ the shells of alien snails . |
| 3 | Sometimes Freud may have appeared not to adhere to this view of science in practice , especially in the way the psychoanalytic movement operated , in some periods , as though it were a new form of sectarian movement . |
| 4 | We thought it were a new card or summat and it 's not . |
| 5 | I only wish it were a new one . |
| 6 | It was a new slant on the eternal problem of the one who kisses and the one who is kissed . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a new bike and served you right , anyway , ’ he said . |
| 8 | But it was a new start . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought the man in the office , Mr Rigby , said it was a new machine , ’ was Robyn 's first comment , when they stood before its massive bulk . |
| 10 | For me , it was a new and very special experience . |
| 11 | It was a new and very special experience to be treated as a granny , excluded from the kitchen , given a sherry before the meal and told not to help with the serving up . |
| 12 | I looked at the time and saw that it was a new world record , so I thought that I , too , must have run fast . |
| 13 | At 6″ ( 15cm ) and in six different colours , it was a new innovation . |
| 14 | I only intended to do that first album , because it was a new label and I did n't want to sign to a label that had no track record . |
| 15 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 16 | It was a new me who demanded locks on my bedroom door the next day . |
| 17 | Surrounded by its great park and built in brick , it was a new venture , half-way towards an elegant country house , the home of a new breed of magnate , more gentleman perhaps than knight . |
| 18 | He never had a ‘ burning ambition ’ to be a merchant banker , he says , but was attracted to County on his return to England because it was a new venture that was attracting the smaller , rapidly expanding companies he was interested in . |
| 19 | It was a new source of work for actors and singers for which there was much gratitude . |
| 20 | He produced this with solemn pride as if it was a new and revolutionary idea : it was , in fact , an unfashionable one . |
| 21 | It was a new route up a beautiful unclimbed peak , the west summit of Shivling . |
| 22 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 23 | It was a new dichotomy , to confuse and criss-cross the older ones of class and party . |
| 24 | This she combines admirably with looking after 14-year-old Alex , 12-year-old Rosie , and 5-year-old twins Fifi ( Fiona ) and Nicky : ‘ It was a new direction but something I 'd always been interested in . |
| 25 | It was a new experience for her to want to open up to someone , especially a man ; but another part of her was relieved to have found a kindred spirit she could confide in . |
| 26 | But it was a new development for him , and he was certain of nothing else . |
| 27 | We got transferred to another old council house , it was very damp , but it was a new start , and I decided that if he wanted some responsibility , OK the tenancy could be in his name . |
| 28 | It was a new world for me . |
| 29 | She realized , and it was a new thought , that he must have been very close to Jake … |
| 30 | The latter was particularly appealing because it was a new industry , where few vested interests existed but which was nonetheless important for the future . |