Example sentences of "it [vb past] another [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
2 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
3 | It involved another Down 's baby , a girl called Alexandra , who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction . |
4 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | In May , 1977 , it moved another step higher . |
8 | The tap could be regulated so that the water flowing from it filled another tank in exactly twenty-four hours , while raising a float inside the tank a fixed distance . |
9 | Yesterday it added another country to its list with an order to produce nearly 5m passports for Lithuania . |
10 | It seemed another play was about to be abandoned but he finally arrived and leapt up to the platform to make a rather more dignified ‘ Entry into Jerusalem ’ . |
11 | Sometimes it seemed another lifetime . |
12 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
13 | It took her longer than she had thought , but it served another purpose . |
14 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
15 | One of the Baltimores was hit by flak and as it spun out of position in the combing box it hit another aircraft , both then spun into the sea . |
16 | It lost another 25-points to close at 2725.6 . |
17 | 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 |
18 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
19 | He then watched to see how long it took another pair to occupy the two kinds of territory . |
20 | Her imperial era was over , though it took another decade and two major anti-terrorist campaigns in Borneo and Aden to complete the transition . |
21 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
22 | It took another step down . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV . |
25 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
26 | It was a protracted illness , accompanied by a high temperature , and it precipitated another bout of bronchitis . |
27 | It convened another meeting on 9 April to present the draft constitution and this meeting Officially brought NICRA into existence . |
28 | It gave another spurt of energy to see the tall man she loved standing there . |
29 | But it had another trick up its sleeves . |
30 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |