Example sentences of "[pron] to the other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who simplify moral judgement to the application of standards would assume that he has either to impose his own code or to accommodate himself to the other . |
| 2 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 3 | Barbara Newington from Connecticut remembered shaking hands effusively with Reagan at the beginning and end of her audience , and each of them saying thank you to the other ; but precisely what she was thanking him for , and what he was thanking her for , neither said . |
| 4 | Two wills becoming one , when the two wills were initially unequal can surely only mean the one will subordinating itself to the other . |
| 5 | Donald felt the pressure from her and stared from one to the other , letting them feel his defiance and distaste . |
| 6 | Wexford looked from one to the other . |
| 7 | The dividing line between border and pathway melts as plants spill over from one to the other . |
| 8 | ‘ The area between Benghazi and Sirte ’ : the road from the one to the other is 400 kilometers long , and so the area implied is very large . |
| 9 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 10 | Like all really good recipes , the proportion of one to the other is entirely arbitrary and you could use canned rather than fresh pineapple . |
| 11 | It is relatively easy to move from one to the other . |
| 12 | Experts continue to disagree about how to extrapolate from one to the other , although it is generally accepted that even the smallest dose carries a health risk . |
| 13 | Mrs Marsden looked from one to the other in confusion . |
| 14 | I remembered moving from one to the other , explaining : I am a writer ; the notebooks are what is precious to me . |
| 15 | ‘ You think I should keep two establishments and sneak furtively from one to the other like some sort of guilty adulterous cad ? ’ |
| 16 | Sir George looked from one to the other . |
| 17 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 18 | Taking in every inch of their bodies , she said , looking from one to the other , she said , in her famously well-timed drawl , That 's just how I want you . |
| 19 | The 1960s were marked by a strong interest in the relationship between primary and secondary education , and in possible changes in the age of transfer from one to the other . |
| 20 | However , on the morning of his funeral , two senior guests , reading their papers after breakfast , raised quizzical eyebrows : ‘ Well , the General will not be needing his loch this morning , ’ said the one to the other . |
| 21 | Sometimes a grammar school and a secondary modern school were located close to one another , even on the same ‘ campus ’ , in order to facilitate the sharing of resources , or the movement of pupils from one to the other . |
| 22 | She nodded from one to the other ; then watched the young man open the door and stand aside to allow his wife to pass before him . |
| 23 | She came in and bolted the door , then stood with her back to it , looking from one to the other . |
| 24 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , yes , yes ’ — the old lady nodded from one to the other at the table now — ‘ in a crocodile , from the school to the church , from the school to the conciergerie , from the … ’ |
| 26 | And , looking from one to the other , she now said , ‘ Goodnight , fellows , and a happy Christmas . ’ |
| 27 | Betty Felton now put her head back and looked from one to the other of her four sons and she said , ‘ Aye , there 's a confectioner 's an' baccy shop in that street . |
| 28 | She watched the big woman flop back and onto a chair , then look from one to the other of her silent sons as she said , ‘ Did you hear that ? |
| 29 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 30 | Denis hesitated and looked from one to the other , then he put the paten under Noreen 's chin . |