Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] another [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When preparations for the desert were under way , we were given another child , four-month-old Sam . |
| 2 | THE Littlewoods Cup holders Nottingham Forest were given another home draw in the quarter-finals , with Tottenham the visitors in the potential tie of the round if they can overcome Tranmere in a replay at home next week , writes Ian Ridley . |
| 3 | We were given another haircut , issued with ID cards and complete uniforms . |
| 4 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 5 | You said they were building another garage did n't you ? |
| 6 | When asked what happened , 62% said they were touched in a sensual way ; 42% experienced someone touching their sex organs ; 33% were masturbated ; 28% were forced to show their sex organs to another person ; 25% were shown another person 's sex organs ; 24% touched another person 's sex organs ; 21% were talked to about sex in an erotic way ; 21% were shown pornographic material ; 16% took part in oral sex ; 10% were flashed at in a public place ; 5% were involved in sexual intercourse ( sometimes including anal sex ) ; and 3% were involved in kissing in a sensual way . |
| 7 | For my hands were not together — They were holding another hand — I felt the weight and the warmth of it for quite a long time … |
| 8 | I think if you were to use another sheet altogether it would be for me at least unnecessary work . |
| 9 | Then they were running another way , running , not to the warren but over the fields in the cold , and Bigwig dropped the berries — blood-red drops , red droppings hard as wire . |
| 10 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 11 | ITV were dealt another body blow yesterday when rivals BBC announced that they had won the battle to screen Liverpool 's European Cup Winners ' Cup campaign next season . |
| 12 | The mythic animals are an even stronger reminder that the fresco artists were depicting another world than the everyday one ; it is a symbolic world where general concepts such as fecundity were more important than accuracy of detail . |
| 13 | What did she have to say when you told her you were taking another woman on this little ‘ business ’ trip ? ’ |
| 14 | The news broke that we were to have another squadron of Pathfinders , but these were going to be crack troops flying Mosquitoes , a much smaller aircraft than the good old faithful Lancaster , and much faster . |
| 15 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 16 | The book might , in its day , have served as a poetic manifesto for the Movement — a sort of critical defence of the Angry Young Poet — but events were to take another turn , leading him in 1968 to settle in the United States for twenty years ; to produce , on his return , Under Briggflats ( 1989 ) , a critical history of British poetry since 1960 . |
| 17 | For a few days there was a period of uncertainty , as Huw waited to see if the Brotherhood were planning another attack upon him — and the Inner Circle of the Guild waited to see if any steps would be taken by the Dockers ' Union , or by the police , in defence of the young man . |
| 18 | We were engaged , within weeks of marriage , when I discovered she was seeing another man . |
| 19 | Juliet felt she was seeing another side to her mother , sensitive , vulnerable , and brave . |
| 20 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 21 | But he survived and was given another jump . |
| 22 | Miss T. was given another dose of pethidine . |
| 23 | I had n't long been back from my honeymoon when my new wife was given another fright . |
| 24 | Now once again we know about this because Edward Heath was given another job , just about nine months later , the king had decided he would summon a parliament in Oxford erm and in January '44 it was due to meet , but where were the members who were going to come into Oxford to stay . |
| 25 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 26 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 27 | A. T. With the strike having taken place , everyone was jockeying , everyone that had sat for Sergeant and passed their exams , the only way they could see to get promotion was to report another man . |
| 28 | He was painting another picture , late at night , after Francie had gone to sleep , when the day 's work was over . |
| 29 | The requirement effect on trade which member states of jurisdiction requirement , it is jurisdictionable because it is the first task that the commissioner of the court should undertake when considering quote from wind surfing get in constant and the concept and agreement which may effect trade is intended to define in the law governing cartels the boundary between the areas , respectively covered by community law and national law , it is not necessary law for the competition effected by the alleged restriction and the trade which is effected between members of states to be the same , an example in the defendants list of authorities it 's in the principal and in that case the restriction of competition arose in relation to a product possible spirits which was itself used to manufacture other products namely cognac , it was argued that the that since there was no trade between members of state and possible spirits there could be no effect upon trade between member of states and so twenty five could not apply , the court accepted that factual premise , there is no trade between member of state and import of spirits , but rejected the legal conclusion , they concluded that is was necessary for there to be an effect upon trade in the market where the restrictions occurred , they was trading another product which was related to possible spirits , and of course stated , it must be observed in that respect that any agreement who 's object to effect is to a strict competition by fixing minimum prices for an intermediate product is capable of effecting intro community trade , even if there is no trading in that intermediate product between members of state , that the product constitutes the raw material of another project marketing elsewhere |
| 30 | Cardiff turned to see that Jimmy was manhandling another cabinet from behind one of the hessian screens and towards the door . |