Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black Oil ? ’ ) , the socket set and a large hammer , and to my astonishment I had fitted a new wheel and mudguard . |
| 2 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 3 | The watchers were now bellowing encouragement to each of the players in a game which had taken a new turn . |
| 4 | She told the audience how she had seen a new state-of-the-art ambulance which was only for use by private patients but staffed and paid for by the NHS . |
| 5 | Tonight she had discovered a new side to herself . |
| 6 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 7 | She had made a new life for herself now in London , a better , much more successful life than Dublin . |
| 8 | However , within six months of our treating her , she had regrown a new hip joint . |
| 9 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Six months later the Great War had broken out and she had found a new cause . |
| 12 | Dexter guessed that she had found a new man . |
| 13 | The previous day she had set a new world record in the preliminaries . |
| 14 | Feeling years older than when she woke up this morning — and not just because she had acquired a new , sophisticated façade of hair and clothing during the day — Belinda plunged into the middle of the party crowd again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was made even more nervous by the fact that the Italian Stefano Tilli , who had set a new world record of 20.52 seconds earlier in the season , was in my heat . |
| 17 | Whereas the wife of one had afforded a new hat , the wife of the other was short of sous for knitting-wool . |
| 18 | We had devised a new social security system which was intended to last . |
| 19 | And although Thornton seemed the obvious choice to the outside world , relationships with him had reached a new low in October 1985 . |
| 20 | They had constructed a new personnel file . |
| 21 | Unwelcomed , unwanted , despised and dug out , they had added a new dimension to my life , given me another self and I wanted never to go from Claro . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The US companies hoped they had found a new seam of commercially-viable movies , but none thought too deeply about what they were buying into . |
| 24 | In January 1981 , Emsley and others reported in the Journal of the American Chemical at Society ( vol 103 , p 24 ) that they had found a new strong hydrogen bond which formed between fluoride and amides — organic salts of ammonia . |
| 25 | They had learned a new set of problem management techniques which they were beginning to use as a matter of course without seeing them as being a single method of solving a particular problem . |
| 26 | They had invented a new social custom but they had also annexed a significant part of the working-class experience . |
| 27 | Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | AMOCO , the US oil company , announced last night that it had found a new gasfield 125 miles east of Aberdeen while drilling on a prospect it has named Appleton . |
| 30 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |