Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 2 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 3 | Only 13% ( 26 ) spoke to their spouse about it , and fewer than 10% mentioned it to another family member or friend . |
| 4 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 5 | Then he opened the cage , took out the part ( which now looked slightly different ) and dropped it into another bin . |
| 6 | He opened the camera , took out the film and handed it with another smile to the man with the spoonbill nose . |
| 7 | He fetched it without another word and watched her while she folded sheets of newspaper into firelighters in the thrifty way Gran had taught her . |
| 8 | Ruth enquired politely , with her head in the basin as Gloria washed her hair , then rinsed it with another jug full of water . |
| 9 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 10 | Her mother insisted the device was essential to stop her skin from stretching , but Jo merely saw it as another strategy to make her ugly . |
| 11 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 12 | ‘ It was only a postcard photo and I gave it spirituality , animation and took it to another vocabulary ’ . |
| 13 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 14 | And some say that Brendan Behan never wrote the song ‘ Old Triangle ’ , but learned it off another inmate at Mountjoy and claimed it as his own . ’ |
| 15 | but because he knew it was our troop , you know but erm , that 's the thing when you , nine times , about eight times out of ten you did it to another troop , but then again they did it back to you , but this time he was a right cocky son of a bitch , I mean we all liked him , but he was right cocky bastard , so he |
| 16 | However , he eventually sold it , and replaced it with another model . |
| 17 | 21 ) who explicitly rejected the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy , according to which it embodies distinctive ideals concerning participation in political life and the relationship between political leaders and the people , and replaced it by another theory of democracy as ‘ competition for political leadership ’ : ‘ the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ ( p. 269 ) . |
| 18 | She had it from another member of the family . |
| 19 | We tested it with another type which was the need : the new work needed a leader . |
| 20 | I compiled it onto another system which has far better de debugging tools and |
| 21 | And er put that on and tied them back and front and up on them tied them to the sides of the coble and and usually towed it with another rowing boat . |
| 22 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |