Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the other [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken together with the other forces already mentioned in this chapter , increased levels of inspection become a potentially counter-productive measure . |
| 2 | He looked down at the other hand neatly folded in his lap . |
| 3 | not , not like the other night when we went |
| 4 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 5 | But perhaps not with the other groups there . |
| 6 | We 'll keep well away on the other side so as not — ahem — to hinder your movement when the moment comes . ’ |
| 7 | Look , you can see St Thomas 's over on the other side now — ’ They were climbing a fairly steep mound . |
| 8 | Are you sure it 's not on the other side round here ? |
| 9 | One thing led to another — actually it was more like the other way round . |
| 10 | The French soldiers , cut off from the other guests both linguistically and emotionally , spoke only amongst themselves , occasionally voluble , more often morose . |
| 11 | Four steps backwards — another curtsey and off to the other side where officials put the medal in a box and took back the hook ! |
| 12 | But the re-organisation means the boot is now on the other foot as far as money is concerned . |
| 13 | The pendulum then swung back to the other extreme where almost no grammar was taught , but all the emphasis was on talking , using conversations in which grammatical structures occurred in an uncontrolled way . |
| 14 | They went back to the other room eventually . |
| 15 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 16 | A partial parasite , mistletoe relies on birds such as thrushes eating its oily berries and dropping the seeds out at the other end on to the branches of trees where they perch . |
| 17 | I mean , it does come out at the other end very soon afterwards . |
| 18 | Got it back across the other fella really could n't quite get enough power on the shot . |
| 19 | Determined not to show fear , Isabel stood her ground before the rage in Matilda 's eyes , staring back at the other woman defiantly . |
| 20 | ‘ But he is n't like the other boys here , ’ Fagin said . |
| 21 | We pass by on the other side so easily . |
| 22 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 23 | In the middle , humping up the roof like an ungainly pillar , stood the death of William Egan at the hands of Terry Place ; at one end , like a bearing wall , was the whole dead Pitt family , and then at the other end there sprouted , surprisingly , as a kind of ante chapel , the death of the student , Malcolm Kincaid . |
| 24 | Baseball fans point out that Jackson bats right-handed and throws left instead of the other way round and was anyway more villain than hero , a theory the film never discusses . |
| 25 | Ironic , he thought , that Müller had plunged the knife in to her back instead of the other way round . |
| 26 | The roles of parents and children gradually become reversed and children start to look after their parents and worry about them instead of the other way around . |
| 27 | I thought , if he 'd been the one arriving in my world instead of the other way around , he 'd have thought I was just as stupid ! |
| 28 | As David Nicholson said he 'll be taking orders from the jockey today instead of the other way around . |
| 29 | It was as if her body was carrying her along , matter over mind , in fact , instead of the other way about . |
| 30 | He 'd come round and get set up again , and we 'd pop round to the other side again , constantly going back and forwards . |