Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 2 | Maybe Daine had gone dybbuk and passed into another body . |
| 3 | After they had eaten and sunbathed a little , they cleared everything away and moved to another hedge to pick more berries . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you ca n't do that here , ’ said the Dormouse crossly , and he got up and moved to another seat . |
| 5 | The man eyed Doyle contemptuously then muttered something to himself and moved to another table and sat down . |
| 6 | She was rejected by her family and moved to another town , where she struggled to bring up her son alone and unsupported . |
| 7 | The doctor was so used to being called in a second time to cope with the results of his first visit that eventually he dug in his heels and advised against another jab dealing with whooping-cough . |
| 8 | You told her you had n't been able to get her out of your mind and begged for another chance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He rose from the desk and turned on another light in the room . |
| 11 | At the end of my five laps , I wheedled and wangled for another session , saying that the photographer needed more time to get his shots . |
| 12 | Under the law of a number of member states ( though not the UK ) , transfer of central management and control from the state of registration is only possible if the company is wound up and reincorporated in another member state . |
| 13 | The simultaneous emergence of popular nationalist sentiment meant that concessions extracted from one Chinese government could be flouted by the people and revoked by another regime . |
| 14 | The shutters rattled and clattered under another onslaught of stones , and yet another . |
| 15 | The birds flew up noisily , circled , and then they came down and settled in another tree not far away . |
| 16 | After a while he stopped shaking and bit into another chocolate . |
| 17 | But he did not admit defeat to the extent of turning the television off ; he simply left it on and went into another room . |
| 18 | I then got up and went into another room , where I found the father Delavaud , still clothed , and lying on the bed , dead . |
| 19 | Moira Russell returned her smile , and went to another door in the room , where she tapped and went in . |
| 20 | She wore it a couple of times , then her husband changed allegiance and went to another make of vintage car ! |
| 21 | She chewed , oh , so delicately and reached towards another dish . |
| 22 | I mended the tent-pole bag and listened to another sermon before switching off my torch . |
| 23 | A boy next door called Rupert Entwistle had told her that if you chopped off a newt 's tail , the tail stayed alive and grew into another newt ten times bigger than the first one . |
| 24 | He walked past her , scratching his ribs absently , and disappeared into another room . |
| 25 | He smiled a marmite-stained smile and gnawed at another corner of his sandwich . |
| 26 | En route he raced and collided with another car . |
| 27 | Gbedemah unselfishly withdrew and stood for another seat . |
| 28 | The red-haired woman in the house next door most certainly heard it , and hurried to another upstairs window to look out the back , for the cry seemed to have come from the yard of her neighbour 's house . |