Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] another " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 2 | A letter which has been ‘ mounted ’ or stuck down to another sheet is not as desirable as one that is free . |
| 3 | The stronger , less compromising , position is that it is enough to have a problem , possibly due to lack of data or thrown up by another 's findings , and plausible ways of solving it . |
| 4 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 5 | When he built up one successful enterprise , he often lost interest in it and moved on to another . |
| 6 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 7 | ‘ If you try to tell someone one night he went to bed in one county and woke up in another and he was no longer a Yorkshireman , he gets more than a bit upset . ’ |
| 8 | The rabbits gave them a wide berth and came through by another gap farther up , close to the gnarled trunk of an old crabapple tree . |
| 9 | It sounds fantastically timeless , like you just jumped into the Tardis and came out in another place and era entirely . |
| 10 | Sometimes Mary went home , and came back with another scar or suppurating patch . |
| 11 | It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him . |
| 12 | Jumping spiders will make detours to reach their prey ; for example , it may be necessary for the spider to leave the branch on which it is standing , climb up the stem , and walk out along another branch . |
| 13 | It has the same effect as the fake burglar alarm box — the intruder will think twice and move on to another house that does not present any problems . |
| 14 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 15 | This time he simply said ‘ It does n't work ’ and walked off to another activity . |
| 16 | I ask you ! ) , where he put on a wetsuit in order to infiltrate the sewers and popped up with another long lens to take her picture . |
| 17 | The opening of the stock exchange was the first step in the privatization programme announced by Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on May 22 ; shortly afterwards , on June 29 , the government detailed further plans to take effect in August , starting with bankruptcy proceedings against about 30 large state entities , the decentralization and splitting up of another 600 companies and the privatization of some 40,000 small service concerns , subsequently adding plans to create private farm holdings . |
| 18 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 19 | I was more the romantic type , being satisfied with a snack , holding the lady on a pedestal for a length of time , and coming back for another wee nibble . |
| 20 | Those which are being discarded , usually after 30 years and around 750,000 miles ( 1,200,000 km ) of service , are sold at £8,000 each and go on to another life overseas . |
| 21 | H laid it back on the table and went over to another , producing a small leather bag from his kilt . |
| 22 | For the moment he left the subject there , and went back to another line of questioning . |
| 23 | Frequently we stopped , turned and went back for another try to the left or right Our order did not change , with Odd-Knut out in front , then Tony and Nathan , and me bringing the line to an end . |
| 24 | His father nodded curtly and went out without another word . |
| 25 | At the door he stopped for a moment and looked back , but then he turned and went out without another word . |
| 26 | Alec stopped , turned , and went out without another word . |
| 27 | They stepped off the pavement outside and crossed over to another group of shops that curved around the square . |
| 28 | Massage is contra-indicated in the following conditions : fever , inflammation ( of skin or joints ) , skin rashes or eruptions , swellings , bruises , sprains , torn muscles and ligaments , broken bones , burns and varicose veins — in short , if it hurts , abandon the movement and move on to another area of the body . |
| 29 | If someone persists in being awkward , then as leader you can choose to continue the discussion with them elsewhere and move on to another questioner . |
| 30 | That same Heinkel managed to escape to the Firth of Forth , turn , and move back for another attack run . |