Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] another [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 2 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 3 | The ex-Croydon Corporation E/1s were still in sound condition and lived to see another day ; they were transferred to New Cross depôt . |
| 4 | The tormented tycoon , who got a £1.26million pay-off eight months ago , failed to find another job . |
| 5 | Mr Weld , who inherited this confusion from the Dukakis administration , made it worse last year when , during the election campaign , he promised to find another place to dump . |
| 6 | TANU later severed its link with Mwafrika — evidently because of that paper 's strident racial tone and what were regarded as poor editorial and reporting policies — and helped to found another paper , Ngurumo ( ‘ The Thunder ’ ) , in 1959 . |
| 7 | When Salomea tried to find another job , she was turned down because she had been given notice from her previous employment . |
| 8 | But Mr Wynn said : ‘ He was driving fast , at least 50 miles per hour , when he completely lost control as he tried to overtake another vehicle . |
| 9 | I tried joining another group , this time for compulsive eaters . |
| 10 | He had seized the opportunity while they dined to make another copy of a revolutionary tract calling for an end to French rule . |
| 11 | PRESSURE on the Government to reconsider its strong opposition to full membership of the European Monetary System mounted yesterday after the authorities failed to arrest another slide in the pound . |
| 12 | The day after we all met you she assured me she 'd say nothing damaging and said she 'd convinced Merlyn who 'd arranged another meeting on the boat . |
| 13 | Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries . |
| 14 | There he 'd met another woman whom he eventually married and she was then expecting their first child . |
| 15 | I think they 'd got another hour . |
| 16 | It would have been better if we 'd got another word really . |
| 17 | I told them that at one we 'd be going away on another job cos we 'd got another job booked in , but in fact I reorganized everything so that in fact we could do it for them . |
| 18 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 19 | Wish we 'd got another robin , we have n't had one this year . |
| 20 | She 'd told another lie . |
| 21 | Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island . |
| 22 | Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew . |
| 23 | After he 'd had another cup of coffee , he went up to see Perdita . |
| 24 | He 'd raced another car reaching speeds of up to 80 miles an hour before losing control and ploughing into a roadside bench where the youngsters gathered . |
| 25 | Everything had been shattered when he 'd brought another dimension into the situation , tried to force something she did n't want , something she did n't think she could ever face again … |
| 26 | ‘ And Dr Kemp — he 'd found another woman , too ? ’ asked Morse , cruelly insistent . |
| 27 | Positivist criminology seemed to represent another example of the misuse of technology — in this case in its application to human beings themselves . |
| 28 | Miss Vine 's budgerigar Beano died that night , and so did old Miss Trimm , a favourite teacher once in Dynmouth Primary , whose declining years had tricked her into believing she 'd mothered another son of God . |
| 29 | By the end of the eighteenth century , however , the word came to have another meaning . |
| 30 | At quarter to eleven her old friend Jerry , the Valium addict , wandered in complaining of stomach pains and said he 'd taken another overdose . |