Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they started to gather for another push , the second wave of mounted police went in , scattering the pickets right across the field . |
| 2 | Kerry 's hair had been recently cut but she decided to go for another snip when she arrived at the studio . |
| 3 | Shortly afterwards , Fiona and James moved to Belgium , where they decided to try for another baby . |
| 4 | Mike , however , had travelled north , leaving his pregnant girlfriend with relatives in the safety of a Harare suburb as he went looking for another war . |
| 5 | But I stopped myself , and went to look for another hiding place . |
| 6 | Niki went fishing for another drive , and thought he had one at Renault ; but the big-manufacturer politics of that season and Gerard Larrousse 's increasing weakness therein , sabotaged that : Niki was kept dangling , offered the drive and then dropped . |
| 7 | In their efforts to reduce surplus food production in the EC , the ministers agreed to maintain for another year the virtual freeze on farm prices ( when expressed in European currency units — ECU ) which had been in effect since 1987 [ see pp. 35534 ; 35915 ; 36493 ; 36599 ; 37209 ] . |
| 8 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 9 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 10 | They 're here all this morning , but they had to go for another meeting . |
| 11 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 12 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 13 | Kate had asked for another day of leave to try and get her family affairs sorted out . |
| 14 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 15 | But by then John Butcher , the man with the power to make such things happen , had left for another appointment . |
| 16 | One of the men Stephen had taken for another policeman in plain clothes came closer , looked at the girl 's open blue eyes . |
| 17 | This was quite clearly not an agreement between the employer and the employee but had the effect of being an indirect restraint on any employee who wanted to work for another member of the trade association within the two year period . |
| 18 | He had his back to her and he stood waiting for another outburst , but when neither answer nor movement came to him he turned his head slowly and looked at her over his shoulder . |
| 19 | He stood staring for another minute , then turned and , shutting the door silently behind him , went back to the cold bed . |
| 20 | Hector stood poised for another blow , but there was no clue to tell him which way to strike . |