Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He craves success the way an alcoholic longs for another drink . |
| 2 | The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning . |
| 3 | ‘ From a personal point of view , I 'd like their bad run to continue for another week . |
| 4 | One day in April , Horsley , Walsh and Everett spent the morning in Manchester meeting the Co-op insurance company and asking them for a £750,000 investment , before rushing straight round to the Council Economic Development Committee to pitch for another £500,000 . |
| 5 | After the meeting Tory group leader Tony Richmond and fellow councillor Peter Jones tabled a motion for last night 's full council session calling for another South African trade delegation to be invited to Darlington . |
| 6 | The drumming and dancing continue for another hour , reaching no climax and no greater or lesser degree of intensity . |
| 7 | They may therefore take up the offer more speedily than they otherwise would , or be more reluctant to leave their existing job to search for another job . |
| 8 | Hence , an illusion that the children would sooner or later return home was sustained , mitigating the need to plan for another outcome which , in any case , was considered inferior and likely to do as much harm as good . |
| 9 | Therefore , if it is at all possible , I should prefer nothing which would upset the group to emerge for another week . " |
| 10 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 11 | For example , if your theme is pink , you could choose a pink silk background and no mount for one picture , have a pink mount with a cream silk backing for another picture , choose a cream card with a pink wash line around the aperture and pink paper behind the mount for a third , and perhaps create a fourth with a plain cream satin background . |
| 12 | When , some years ago , I did a restaurant-reporting stint for another magazine , I kicked off with the Ritz Hotel . |
| 13 | But if voters have voted for a successful candidate why should some of them — just which , we shall examine later — be given the opportunity to vote for another candidate ? |
| 14 | Davis 's death in 1907 left Swindin looking for another post . |
| 15 | This is the name chosen for another family of devices which are built from simple nodes , connected in a network . |
| 16 | PC Andrew Ness , of Tayside Police , told how he had been on the road block looking for another vehicle when a white Cavalier had burst through . |
| 17 | Another girl , placed in a children 's home at 13 after her mother had a nervous breakdown and her father left for another woman , described her shock at finding it was also a place of ‘ correction ’ for young offenders . |
| 18 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 19 | He hinted that the sale might be delayed to allow the firm to apply for another warrant to allow the uplift of goods ‘ through a different procedure ’ . |
| 20 | To glorify the love felt for another man 's wife was to flout contemporary notions of obedience and authority , the authority of the church as well as the authority of the husband . |
| 21 | The tall , fair-haired man fell for another woman skater and his little partner 's heart was broken . |
| 22 | Holly and the majority were to travel , the old man waited for another transport to another destination . |
| 23 | Wickham had remarked that covert freelance writing for another publication did not justify making a misleading statement during a murder inquiry . |
| 24 | The local economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil and gas extraction and , more important still , on energy-guzzling industries , with the chemical industry accounting for 41% of the value-added in the state and oil refining for another 17% . |
| 25 | She opened the door and stared in astonishment at the tall , strongly built man who was standing with his hand raised for another assault on her bell . |
| 26 | A fond farewell , a tearful eye , a waving hanky , sob , sob — it 's all over , summer gone for another year . |
| 27 | Consistency will be the key note when the Crosby show re-opens for another season . |
| 28 | The doctor stayed for another hour , gave Cora-Beth the promised sedative and a tearful Becky put her to bed . |
| 29 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 30 | The firing continued for another hour , and I moved quietly through the trees to the shore . |