Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] another " in BNC.
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1 | I was just about to ask him about the horse — and I never got another chance afterwards . |
2 | How many times have you read an interview with a musician where he or she says , ‘ Yeah , that was my favourite guitar , but it got stolen , and I never found another like it ’ ? |
3 | First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) . |
4 | She felt the sting of treacherous tears , her enemy in these past few months , lurking , waiting to consume her , and she hastily took another mouthful from the bottle , biting her lips , slightly numb from cold and champagne , to stop the tears spilling down her cheeks and overwhelming her completely . |
5 | The child died , and she never had another . |
6 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
7 | All the optimism of the summer had evaporated , and we now faced another winter and Christmas without our families in this cold hole in the ground . |
8 | After all , Niki did too on occasion — until it brought Niki a recurrence of the Nürburgring nightmare and he never touched another joint in his life . |
9 | It did n't last long because we were back in the boardroom by now , and he quickly got another glass of champagne into his clutches . |