Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I received another note from Mellowes ; it said I was not to leave the office ; I was not to answer the phone ; above all I was not to speak to the press . |
| 2 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 3 | Andrew Mitchell , in charge here , was on holiday , but I met another colleague , Fiona Sheppard , who looks after events . |
| 4 | I met a brother-in-law who told me to leave but I stayed another night in our new house just outside the village . |
| 5 | Well then Fred said she is after but you got another girl . |
| 6 | Ruth was fairly sure she could , but she had another question in mind of greater importance . |
| 7 | But we asked another question of the core audience to Radio 4 during the Gulf War coverage . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd hoped she and Leo could be here tonight , but they had another engagement . ’ |
| 9 | But he told another women , barren after five years of marriage , that she was a witch . |
| 10 | He wanted to get on with the job of examining the clothes and , he hoped , identifying the body , but he had another job to do first — to call on the River Police and give them such facts as he had . |
| 11 | But he read another significance into their scarcity . |
| 12 | So I drove to Arnisdale and discovered that Mr McTavish would indeed ferry me over for a bottle of malt : but he wanted another bottle to bring me back . |
| 13 | His writing was filled with compassion , but he showed another face to his wife and children . |
| 14 | But it had another trick up its sleeves . |
| 15 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 16 | It took her longer than she had thought , but it served another purpose . |
| 17 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 18 | It was Lennon 's first straight acting role and was coolly received , but it provided another vehicle for promoting his vision of a world free of war and nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | Why the machine had levers at each end was a mystery never satisfactorily explained to the boys , but it created another alley in Grandad 's life , the alley between one machine and another , and though there were no U-boats shooting at him , it was hard going with his bad leg . |