Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further along the landing light came from another room . |
| 2 | He had found it and endured it , but it had opened his eyes to what apprenticeship meant under another master than Adam . |
| 3 | The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning . |
| 4 | The friendly little Asian appeared from another door and held his hands out for our tickets . |
| 5 | For us two the war meant , as for so many others , a break in physical contact : but if , as Simone Weil said , ‘ every separation is a link ’ , such a break is not a breaking off , but a period in which , at least in my case , that ties of friendship continued in another form . |
| 6 | In the afternoon a 74-year-old woman was killed when her car collided with another vehicle on Ballydougan Road , Downpatrick . |
| 7 | A long , thin brunette sat on another bean-bag very close to her , staring down at a focus somewhere near the edge of the blonde 's left thigh . |
| 8 | Stairs led up ; the wood-panelled hall led to another set of stairs going down . |
| 9 | It was strange and awkward , being dressed by someone else , seeing Lyddy kneel to put on her stockings , lace up her boots , feeling the steady foreign strokes on her head of a hairbrush wielded by another hand . |
| 10 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 11 | Her body shuddered in another racking sigh . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For example , a woman who over the phone sounded to one policeman as ‘ dead on ’ still had a complaint against her noisy dogs investigated because the complainant appeared to another policeman not to be ‘ spinning a yarn ’ ( FN 19/9/87 , p. 29 ) . |
| 15 | Besides saving three lives , the fire crew tended to another man , who was badly burnt and injured after jumping from his blazing room . |
| 16 | In the process of overtaking a lorry , a woman crashed into another lorry reversing out of a side turning . |
| 17 | ‘ My father tied with another man at an Old Newton furrow-drawing match : both had a quarter-inch deviation — it must have been about sixty years ago . |
| 18 | A bell rang in another part of the house . |
| 19 | The second leg of the novice hurdle went to another newcomer , Captain My Captain , 81 . |
| 20 | They reasserted their support of the American Anti-Slavery Society , sought links between their local groups and accepted the logic of being a minor adjunct of a movement whose dynamic lay in another country . |
| 21 | Rate relief came to another £1 m. , and various forms of tax relief to a considerable sum , which could not be accurately assessed . |
| 22 | When they entered the kitchen May 's voice came from another room , calling , ‘ I 'll be there in a minute , Frank . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The tall , fair-haired man fell for another woman skater and his little partner 's heart was broken . |
| 25 | You went off a main road went down another road and the village was at the end of a road and that was the end of it . |
| 26 | In summer it must have been bright and baking , but in wet autumn slate-grey sky lay like another box against its repeating panes , in which lines of little round lights were reflected , like Tinkerbell 's fairylights in her Never-Never-Land . |
| 27 | And this man went to another church not so very far away so we knew what happened and certainly we were very glad we accepted our doctor 's opinion . |
| 28 | Holly and the majority were to travel , the old man waited for another transport to another destination . |
| 29 | He then extended his frame-winning sequence to seven when play resumed with another half-century . |
| 30 | Left : Lyneham Walk led to another murder scene |