Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] another [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The crisis arose eventually over another matter , when Ken exerted successful moral pressure on one of William 's Dutch courtiers to marry the Princess 's maid of honour whom he had seduced .
2 The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm .
3 He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter .
4 At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar .
5 Trinity hit back with a 34th-minute try from David Jones and substitute Paul Round charged over for another touchdown on the hour .
6 When after a year he moved away to another job , she felt acute distress and thought continuously of him for many months .
7 When the harvester moved off into another field , I moved in .
8 Mahoney wandered off to another part of the room , leaving Donna to study the canvas more closely .
9 And it 's that moment which , when we trace the expansion backwards , will have occurred between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago , but we ca n't say what , if anything , may have happened before that , whether the universe bounced out into another state of expansion , so we have a sort of a cut off in our ability to retrodict , or extrapolate backwards into the past .
10 Once or twice he began to say something , paused and then branched out to another subject which had no connection with the one before .
11 The essential qualities of a tenant 's fixture are that it may be removed without causing irreparable damage to the building and that it may be set up and used again in another building or place ( Webb v Bevis ( Frank ) Ltd [ 1940 ] 1 All ER 247 ; Young v Dalgety plc [ 1987 ] 1 EGLR 116 ) .
12 Scaevola presents a similar case in which there is a legacy of a sum of money to one man , Seius , who is charged with payment of maintenance to freedmen ; in codicils the legacy is adeemed and the sum made over to another man , Maevius : is the trust due ?
13 ‘ I think they got away in another truck , ’ he said .
14 It veered on to another track and smashed into the approaching passenger train .
15 And we drove down to another place , I think this was , it was just called the pub .
16 Kate Armstrong came in with another tray of coffee .
17 The rabbits gave them a wide berth and came through by another gap farther up , close to the gnarled trunk of an old crabapple tree .
18 I was gnashing mine at some news from France , received just after another example of the present service from British Telecom .
19 We drove off to another barracks in Lille where we were taken individually into an office occupied by a portly Major ; he handed each of us a pile of papers and we were told to sign each one at the bottom .
20 I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs .
21 Spirits dashed , Fonda and Hopper came up with another idea for a picture called The Queen , starring themselves and Jack Nicholson as Robert McNamara , Dean Rusk and Lyndon Johnson apparently plotting the assassination of John F. Kennedy .
22 The Bank , as we know , came up with another offer later in the year which must go down as historic as it entailed a zero increase for a nineteen month period .
23 Sometimes Mary went home , and came back with another scar or suppurating patch .
24 And they came back for another fortnight of re-building !
25 ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . )
26 Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area .
27 It sounds fantastically timeless , like you just jumped into the Tardis and came out in another place and era entirely .
28 Brent came across with another £250,000 .
29 The morning of my return journey , each bag was sealed , wrapped in newspaper and sealed again in another bag .
30 And then she saw that there was a narrow , open doorway in the wall opposite her , which opened on to another chamber .
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