Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] another " in BNC.

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1 Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare .
2 Er , her father lived on for another six years .
3 If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility .
4 There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another .
5 You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day .
6 Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification .
7 Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered .
8 While Miss Turner left halfway through to go on to another show , Miss Collins popped backstage at the end to congratulate the actress .
9 Because people have done one job , during the day , and then having to go on to another job at night , and make no mistake , that , you know , this is the sort of legislation that we need , to protect us , the public from what , you know , the consequences of somebody working
10 He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years .
11 The slump is likely to go on for another two years .
12 He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God .
13 The Americans backed one faction , the South Africans crept in behind another .
14 He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners .
15 When he built up one successful enterprise , he often lost interest in it and moved on to another .
16 Nick warmed up his caddie career from 1971 to 1974 carrying Archer 's bag , and then moved on to work for Australian Bruce Crampton until 1977 , when he moved on to another Australian , Graham Marsh .
17 The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm .
18 He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter .
19 So they achieved it in one state and then they moved on to another and started a whole new campaign .
20 If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power .
21 No doubt he himself would have difficulties : but he thought that the Conservatives , without entering into any general undertaking , would support his Government , which would not embark upon any extravagant legislation ; and in this way the King 's Government might be carried on for another Session or even longer .
22 Well I 'm actually in my own office but it joins on to another office
23 An' she drops in for another little drop ,
24 At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar .
25 The third came soon after when flanker Chris Clapcott crashed over for another converted try .
26 Trinity hit back with a 34th-minute try from David Jones and substitute Paul Round charged over for another touchdown on the hour .
27 In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set .
28 Every few seconds , it stops , executes a pirouette with its head lifted and then dashes off in another direction .
29 So , as the couple fly off for another holiday in Richard 's private jet , they can be happy in the knowledge that in the unlikely event that Richard should ever loose his millions , they 'll be able to live on love .
30 It then starts off on another ‘ rodent-run ’ , watching to see if it is followed .
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