Example sentences of "[verb] another [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physics baffles me , the philosophy bores me — but I know that I would take about seven years for me to write out all the digits in a statement of the odds against encountering another ship in Highlight . |
| 2 | The mythical opponents , Vishnu representing complacency and preservation and Siva symbolizing change and metamorphosis , gain another perspective in the light of physics . |
| 3 | They all laughed as Nikos relieved the momentary tension by producing another bottle of wine and proceeded to fill fresh glasses . |
| 4 | Before Tolby had stopped squirming , Lorton flung another question at him . |
| 5 | Kissing or touching another man in a sexual way or even just going out for a drink without telling a partner is regarded by most as being unfaithful . |
| 6 | Jaq scanned another swarm of these hybrids , on the rampage with guns and blades . |
| 7 | SOME observers think diesel-engined cars are about to enjoy another upsurge in popularity among company vehicle fleet operators . |
| 8 | However , a full one-point rise would probably trigger another run on sterling and force a one-point base rate rise in the UK . |
| 9 | Between the formalised rigours of the Court and the relative torpor of much estate living , the European aristocracy in the seventeenth century had generally developed another pattern of diversion , combining pleasure with a certain degree of purpose . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Kennedy committed the USA to a new level of arms production , thoroughly alarming the Russians and inaugurating another phase in the arms race between the superpowers . |
| 11 | Was this the price that these incomers to Orkney were to pay for befriending and attempting to support another family in trouble ? |
| 12 | Sir James Goldsmith sold another chunk of Newmont Mining , the biggest gold-mining group in North America . |
| 13 | Some writers distinguish another type of database , the inverted file . |
| 14 | I soon met another neighbour of Sir Henry 's . |
| 15 | The prince chatted and joked with his well-wishers before he and his coach party met another group of community representatives and private and public sector figures who had earlier made a tour of the estate . |
| 16 | Lay another sheet of greaseproof paper on top and roll the sponge up with the paper inside . |
| 17 | Therefore , when you lay another wash of colour on top , it does n't disturb the paint underneath . |
| 18 | To double the number you just lay another cable alongside the first . |
| 19 | And when he thrust at her , still yelling , ‘ Get up into that house , there ! ’ and almost pushed her onto her back , the young fellow sprang forward and grabbed her ; then , with one arm around her and the other fist doubled , forefinger pointing out straight at the man , he cried at him , ‘ You lay another hand on her like that , mister , an' that 'll be the last thing you do . ’ |
| 20 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 21 | Below this sits another push-button for selecting a pre- or post-EQ balanced out signal . |
| 22 | ‘ He became another father to you both , ’ he spoke for her . |
| 23 | The controversy , like the 1986-87 international airport scandal [ see p. 35766 ] , pitted the Prime Minister 's two sons , Lester and Vere Bird , against each other and became another aspect of the ongoing struggle to succeed their father as Prime Minister . |
| 24 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 25 | The link between German agreement to EMU and their demands on political union was made explicit , and became another condition for their agreement . |
| 26 | That Louis 's basic intention was to reassert his own control emerged in the immediate sequel to Attigny : he " sent Lothar to Italy " ; and he engendered another child by the Empress Judith . |
| 27 | Policing of black-out restrictions was another task which fell to local Party representatives and , in the early war years when air raids seemed scarcely a menace , frequently formed another source of irritation . |
| 28 | Although Said rejects them , and Foucault characteristically does not mention them , the most effective ploys that have recently been played in this project of articulating another form of knowledge , of redefining the basis of knowledge as such , derive from a different although related body of work to that which Foucault describes — namely the phenomenological tradition of Heidegger , Levinas , and Derrida , which , seemingly like all twentieth-century European philosophy , also traces its apparent origins back to Husserl . |
| 29 | The subterranean passage view offers a plausible account of how the monsters could feed , but unfortunately in doing so it destroys another theory about ‘ Nessie ’ , which is that the animal is a relic of the dinosaur age , possibly a plesiosaur . |
| 30 | Erm can I throw another spanner in the works er sir . |