Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] another " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Ianthe seemed not to know how to answer Sophia 's remark and soon they were on to another topic — the strangers in the parish and whether it was likely that they would come to church . |
| 2 | The commandos rehearsed their demolition exercises to the point of boredom , believing they were merely on another training course . |
| 3 | We could hear them banging about , shifting things and wondered nervously if we were in for another move . |
| 4 | It would be a shame , but if the balance is not redressed , I would be surprised if Bunty were around in another 10 years . |
| 5 | It was as if they were indeed from another world : a happy world , a free and easy world . |
| 6 | He only became as it were conscious again when he realised that she was on to another topic . |
| 7 | His mother , he knew , was in for another of her bouts , and he would have to bear the brunt of it . |
| 8 | I thought I was in for another evening of getting slightly drunk on my own . ’ |
| 9 | When eventually she left the sitting-room to go to bed , she pattered into the hall , knowing in advance that she was in for another wretched night of it . |
| 10 | She was sure it would get Edouard and his wife into trouble , and she kept saying it was only for another day or two . ’ |
| 11 | It was only for another week . |
| 12 | She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another . |
| 13 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 14 | But his commitment was n't here ; she was away with another man … |
| 15 | One of her co-accused in the Stompie Seipei Moeketsi trial , who supported her alibi that she was away in another state at the time of the 14-year-old 's murder , now says he lied throughout the proceedings . |
| 16 | It was not for another year , in the midst of another crisis , that a conclusion was finally reached . |
| 17 | It was a curious affair — the takeover offer was not from another shipping company , but from the Ingard property group , a network of companies making speculative deals in land , controlled by the financier Desmond Ingard . |
| 18 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 19 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 20 | Fletchers are famous for their forward planning , and so it was off to another aquatic centre , this time for some mortar to bed down the perimeter slabs . |
| 21 | Then his father was off on another tack . |
| 22 | But Louise was off on another track . |
| 23 | He said he was always on another planet . |
| 24 | But it was probably for another reason that Mahmoud had called on him . |
| 25 | A minute later , when she 'd got control of herself , Drew was back with another glass of vodka and orange . |
| 26 | My partner here , ’ jerking his thumb in my direction , ‘ he was out on another call . ’ |
| 27 | This would not be a problem if it was n't for another silly set of rules about what you must wear . |
| 28 | I was there for another month , then they sent me to Bullwood Hall . |
| 29 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |
| 30 | He had already spent months like this in one sort of mental prison and here he was again in another . |