Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv] [prep] the other " in BNC.

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1 Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened .
2 Rose McKenna came across to the other woman , sitting on the arm of the chair , holding her hand .
3 Then , two minutes before the end of the game , the news came through from the other ground that Sunderland had lost .
4 Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise .
5 Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this .
6 The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half .
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