Example sentences of "[vb past] on another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 2 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 3 | In her small workroom on the top floor of a crumbling old warehouse in Whitechapel Theresa Arnold shivered and turned on another bar of her portable gas fire . |
| 4 | He rose from the desk and turned on another light in the room . |
| 5 | Seve vanished on another crusade , to beat another army , save another universe . |
| 6 | Then she began on another tack . |
| 7 | The collectorship of supply , as Montrose remarked on another occasion , was ‘ an affair that too often divides neighbours ’ , and he might have added , it also divided political interests . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a result of the Merrison Commission 's recommendations the incoming administration , once again Conservative and headed by Margaret Thatcher , decided on another reorganisation ( DHSS 1979 ) , to be carried out in 1982 , based on a new set of principles — small is beautiful , with the devolution of decision-making as close as possible to the patient . |
| 11 | In the 1960s , an astronomer named Gerald Hawkins worked on another idea . |
| 12 | Zena pulled on another stocking and heard his footsteps echoing away up the corridor . |
| 13 | Zeinab started on another tack . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was deeply worried about Berenice , and for a fleeting moment she was envious of the love he lavished on another woman . |
| 17 | Superior qualifications were , indeed , by no means a guarantee of preferment , on the testimony of David Scott himself , who admitted on another occasion that ‘ there was some altercation about the superior qualifications of the other candidates , but on my shewing the chairman the anxiety I had to provide for your friend , with his assistance I carried it ’ . |
| 18 | And he got up and he got on another bed ! |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Two days later we went on another beat , this time for panther , but the panther broke back and we never saw it . |
| 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 | Bernice munched on another fibreburger , wiping away the unpleasantly spicy taste with more of the pink drink . |
| 23 | As future Apothecaries might well have been tempted to sell the site for building , Sloane insisted on another clause : |
| 24 | So they , they welcomed the idea of a separation of powers but they also insisted on another principle , probably the most important principle of American government , and that is the principle of federalism . |
| 25 | The day after their sit-in , some dazibao appeared on another Beijing campus , complaining about poor security . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Herr Hocher put on another record , an amateurish jazz band . |
| 28 | He spoke on another occasion of the music ‘ resting in the mind of the players ’ . |
| 29 | There was no response and the meeting continued on another tack until a man came from the back of the room with a story about how he had , in the pitch black night , walked straight into a lamp post on his way home the night before : hence the severe head pains . |
| 30 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |