Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on another [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selection of the correct key added on another minute or so and Sandison could only look on feeling helpless and frustrated . |
| 2 | In the 1960s , an astronomer named Gerald Hawkins worked on another idea . |
| 3 | For instance , finality is felt in a return to the tonic , accompanied by tonic harmony , while temporary repose or the need for continuity is implied if the melody rests on another note with ( inevitably ) harmony which is not tonic harmony . |
| 4 | Animals rely on another type of photo-sensitive pigment , known as rhodopsin , to detect light . |
| 5 | Bernice munched on another fibreburger , wiping away the unpleasantly spicy taste with more of the pink drink . |
| 6 | It is a mathematical possibility that our mirror images exist on another planet . |
| 7 | ‘ I agree , ’ said Dod , popping the ring pull on another can of lager . |
| 8 | A long , thin brunette sat on another bean-bag very close to her , staring down at a focus somewhere near the edge of the blonde 's left thigh . |
| 9 | Eventually , submitting to James Coleridge 's persuasion and recognizing the peculiar circumstances , the authorities decided on another solution , though one of which the Coleridge family evidently remained unaware . |
| 10 | Let him who is prepared , should McNab decide on another experiment , to have needles driven into his stomach , allow himself to be treated by this charlatan . |
| 11 | As future Apothecaries might well have been tempted to sell the site for building , Sloane insisted on another clause : |
| 12 | They were objecting to having to travel by bus everyday to their laboratories and classrooms located on another site . |
| 13 | Kylie however has her sights set on another star , and another decade , the 1940s . |
| 14 | There was no response and the meeting continued on another tack until a man came from the back of the room with a story about how he had , in the pitch black night , walked straight into a lamp post on his way home the night before : hence the severe head pains . |
| 15 | Her breath caught on another sob . |
| 16 | The collectorship of supply , as Montrose remarked on another occasion , was ‘ an affair that too often divides neighbours ’ , and he might have added , it also divided political interests . |
| 17 | However , he went on to hold that the claim failed on another ground , viz. , that as a general rule there will , as a matter of policy , be no recovery of taxes paid pursuant to legislation which is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid . |
| 18 | Dana could n't know about Berenice ; she was n't heartless … she would n't want a life built on another woman 's misery . |
| 19 | Dr Clark 's jaw put on another yard . |
| 20 | The main problem faced by both of the pressure sensitive systems is that the weight of a hand pressing on another part of the surface can alter the resistive characteristics and so give false readings . |
| 21 | So the two dictionaries differed on another dimension . |
| 22 | Seve vanished on another crusade , to beat another army , save another universe . |
| 23 | As to nomes , I have data that says nomes originated on another world and came here thousands of years ago . |
| 24 | Zena pulled on another stocking and heard his footsteps echoing away up the corridor . |
| 25 | Zeinab started on another tack . |
| 26 | Herr Hocher put on another record , an amateurish jazz band . |
| 27 | Ahead , to the left , tin roofs glinted on another plateau , which rose at a distance of eight miles away . |