Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My boss hinted this afternoon at asking me to work on another case . ’ |
| 2 | Later , when I consulted on another matter a British doctor who has been in Kampala some thirty years , he stated that he ‘ never advises patients to take mefloquine . |
| 3 | Can I touch on another thing , which I think , has n't been mentioned in the notes , but is very much in our minds . |
| 4 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 5 | Shall I go on another machine ? |
| 6 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 7 | Normally organisers will allow you to re-weigh on another set of scales if you believe that a particular set is reading heavy . |
| 8 | can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ? |
| 9 | Then she began on another tack . |
| 10 | A layout of that kind would have the advantage that you could leave your work out on the desk in the room and go back to it later — you would n't need to tidy up before you started on another piece of work , because you 'd go to another room to do it . |
| 11 | Yes then when you go on another holiday you 've got ta fetch all of them out , shove them under the bottom . |
| 12 | You can load up to 10 applications and hold them in suspended animation in the background while you work on another app in the foreground . |
| 13 | Timidly she tacked on another question that bothered her . |
| 14 | Here we touch on another type of linguistic hierarchy , which interacts with the one already mentioned . |
| 15 | You can certainly do group suggestive therapy and here we touch on another point that erm Joy reminds us of and Freud makes quite a bit on the book the parallel between being in a group and being hypnotized , because the , the , the role of the hypnotist is to take over completely |
| 16 | Two days later we went on another beat , this time for panther , but the panther broke back and we never saw it . |
| 17 | if they listen on another tape all the |
| 18 | He was deeply worried about Berenice , and for a fleeting moment she was envious of the love he lavished on another woman . |
| 19 | And he got up and he got on another bed ! |
| 20 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 21 | He came back to England and seemed about to succumb to pneumonia but , ten days after his return , he went on another visit to Paris , on this occasion to receive an honorary degree from the University there . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | He spoke on another occasion of the music ‘ resting in the mind of the players ’ . |
| 24 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |