Example sentences of "on another " in BNC.
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| 1 | He comes to the end of one and without pause is off on another . |
| 2 | You on another case , eh ? |
| 3 | What it came down to was this : if I was going to do anything I was going to have to take on another part-time catering or cleaning job . |
| 4 | On another occasion when I was involved in the tense process of bringing prisoners into the charge room in the central bridewell in Newcastle , a very precise ex-detective colleague ( by then a neat , uniformed chief inspector ) stopped me to exclaim on my appearance . |
| 5 | Normally organisers will allow you to re-weigh on another set of scales if you believe that a particular set is reading heavy . |
| 6 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 7 | Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’ |
| 8 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 9 | But you have to develop an eye for spotting possibilities ; a kind of ‘ picture eye ’ which sees a winter sky in the grain marking on one particular piece of veneer or a rock formation in the figure on another . |
| 10 | As the child that comes or may come from a sexual encounter between a man and a woman differs from the child born from that man and some other woman ( or from the same man and the same woman on another occasion ) , so every genuine poem is the unique product of one unrepeatable encounter between the artist and an unearthly partner who may be called ‘ Muse ’ or ‘ goddess ’ . |
| 11 | Answer number two turns on another price that bothers him . |
| 12 | On another level , the building can be seen as an ark bearing its precious human cargo through a decidely rough sea of bad urban planning and even worse architecture . |
| 13 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 14 | First to go in the two-horse jump-off , he was able to claim his first ever Wembley victory after Michael Whitaker had 12 faults on another stallion , Next Didi . |
| 15 | Lanfranco Dettori , the talented 18-year-old who was eighth on another English runner , Legal Case , confirmed Cauthen 's view . |
| 16 | He spent an uncomfortable day surrounded by burly miners threatening to smash his Dansette with baseball bats every time he put on another part from the ‘ Ring Cycle ’ . |
| 17 | Another Kurd represented by Mr Hanley , Halil Guzel , is due to be deported on another flight to Istanbul this afternoon . |
| 18 | England are still awaiting news on another back-row man with shoulder problems — Leicester 's No. 8 , Dean Richards , who will not be making this weekend 's away day to Orrell , whose coach , Des Seabrook , is in hospital recovering from a mild heart attack . |
| 19 | If you can not do the whole garden at once , I have found it better to do a small area really well and then concentrate on another the next year . |
| 20 | Like , you can tell people who are , like , geniuses , you can almost tell to look at them , they 're on another planet . |
| 21 | Turning down a street off [ place ] , [ neighbourhood policeman 's name ] decided to call on another Old Age Pensioner . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a very shaky area and we had one or two incidents with tribes who buzzed a few spears at us ’ , said Mark as he inhaled deeply on another cigarette . |
| 23 | On another occasion Mark and his merry band were staying at the Raja 's palace at Seraikella . |
| 24 | On another side it was an assault upon the corruption of the highest truths ; against turning love of the Bible into bibliolatry , or creeds into scholastic definitions , or the sacrament into magic , or Popes and priests and bishops into a bureaucracy or a rigidity where structure becomes the end instead of the means ; or turning the Church into a social club . |
| 25 | This is my pivot on which to turn to the last , and I think most important category of what you call the breakdown of law and order , because it leads us to concentrate our attention not on the silent majority but on another point in society . |
| 26 | The Grenada story is delicious on another account . |
| 27 | Public opinion has shifted to the right over the past decade on one component of collectivism — nationalization — and in a more liberal direction on another , state provision of welfare and social policies ( for similar trends elsewhere , see below ) . |
| 28 | No matter how you rise in the world never look down on another . |
| 29 | Memories of the 16-cylinder engine disaster must have faded at BRM by the mid '60s when the company embarked on another ambitious project . |
| 30 | Herr Hocher put on another record , an amateurish jazz band . |