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

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1 Before Tolby had stopped squirming , Lorton flung another question at him .
2 Jaq scanned another swarm of these hybrids , on the rampage with guns and blades .
3 He picked himself up and breasted another mound .
4 Sir James Goldsmith sold another chunk of Newmont Mining , the biggest gold-mining group in North America .
5 The shares tumbled another 40p to 560p .
6 Then I met another girl , an art student , who delighted in conversation as I did .
7 She met another man she knew and was dancing with him when Antonio discovered her , whereupon he was heard by onlookers to curse the moon for trusting in his fiancée 's purity .
8 I soon met another neighbour of Sir Henry 's .
9 When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too .
10 Unaware of this , he went on , ‘ Half way , he met another bloke carrying a parcel just the same .
11 Charles and Frances joined the exodus to the bar and met another couple coming towards them .
12 Then five years ago , by chance I met another women at a trade conference .
13 She underwent a lumpectomy and then a course of radiotherapy , and was due to start drug treatment when she met another cancer patient .
14 She 's got ta , met another boyfriend up there .
15 They must have gone a good two miles before they met another car .
16 Around the same time I met another paper 's Moscow correspondent , recently arrived from China , whose Mandarin is fluent .
17 Within minutes they met another flight : Richards and Gabriel .
18 Andrew Mitchell , in charge here , was on holiday , but I met another colleague , Fiona Sheppard , who looks after events .
19 At this school exchange , however , my mother met another woman , who had a daughter there , who , miraculously , was going into the same class as me !
20 The prince chatted and joked with his well-wishers before he and his coach party met another group of community representatives and private and public sector figures who had earlier made a tour of the estate .
21 ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family .
22 But the belief that as every post fell vacant , in marched another businessman briefed to implement the free-market orders of Downing Street soon became another myth .
23 He replaces Andrew Harriman , of Harlequins , who became another flu victim .
24 He replaces Andrew Harriman , of Harlequins , who became another flu victim .
25 Another hospital near Worcester became another home a year later .
26 Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs .
27 ‘ He became another father to you both , ’ he spoke for her .
28 In addition , one adopted son was knighted and an adopted daughter became another dame .
29 The controversy , like the 1986-87 international airport scandal [ see p. 35766 ] , pitted the Prime Minister 's two sons , Lester and Vere Bird , against each other and became another aspect of the ongoing struggle to succeed their father as Prime Minister .
30 Roger and Joan , struggling on income support and unemployment benefit , became another DSS statistic and an unwilling burden on the State .
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