Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] another [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England have only beaten the Turks 1–0 in their last two clashes and Wright admitted : ‘ The manager has given me another chance , now I 'm desperate to repay that faith . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest . |
| 4 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 5 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 6 | Rugby and last year 's losing finalists in the Provincial Insurance cup have earned themselves another crack at it . |
| 7 | Congress had granted him another amnesty to contest the 1992 election . |
| 8 | La , like I 've done today I 've made him another jelly in it . |
| 9 | Shane 's bought himself another car . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel ashamed to tell you this , Father , but Michael has bought himself another club , this time a bordello . ’ |
| 11 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 12 | and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job . |
| 13 | she was taken out of work one morning and now they 've bought her another car and I do n't where it 's happened but somebody 's gone into the back of her |
| 14 | Mom 's talking about staying a few years because someone 's offered her another show . |
| 15 | ‘ The poor cow 's brought me another cake , ’ he said to Gina . |
| 16 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 17 | Feeling unutterably guilty , she saw he 'd brought her another drink and a fresh hot-water bottle . |
| 18 | As soon as we have found him another set of legs he 'll be out and about again , do you think he 'll mind walking on his hands for now ? |
| 19 | Could even you know have possibly have driven it another yard , taken it a yard further and killed the keeper off . |
| 20 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ said Bernard , ‘ if you 'd only stuck it another month , you 'd have got your degree and we could have begun to live quite comfortably . ’ |
| 21 | It was a good thing that Edward Morris had given her another order which he had insisted on paying for in advance . |
| 22 | You might have given her another stroke . ’ |
| 23 | A club spokesman said : ‘ The doctors have given him another scan and he was taken off the life-support machine . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Bastard 's given him another number , ’ said the engineer in Kensington to the two Metropolitan officers with him . |
| 25 | I mean I was , one minute I was walking round , I had n't touched anything another minute it was catching my finger . |
| 26 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
| 27 | While the logic of Black 's view has been widely accepted , in practice many empirical studies have used some form of rate of return , although they may have given it another name . |
| 28 | Indeed she had not given it another thought since last seeing it in Matthew 's sitting-room . |
| 29 | Have actually already covered them another time and I do n't want to get deeper in the stealth now than that , there 's a limit on the time now available this morning . |
| 30 | He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol . |