Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
2 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
3 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
4 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
5 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
6 | She moved around to the other side of the desk . |
7 | He was about to apologize , remembered the microphone , then moved round to the other side of the desk and sat down . |
8 | The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner . |
9 | She dropped down on the other side of the sweetheart plant from Rain , bowed her head , rested her right hand lightly on the keys , shut her eyes tight and concentrated . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Then , two minutes before the end of the game , the news came through from the other ground that Sunderland had lost . |
12 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
13 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
14 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
15 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
16 | But at last she came out on the other side and ran after them as before , calling out , " Hoo ! |
17 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
18 | Within seconds he had been substituted and within minutes a goal almost came about at the other end . |
19 | She giggled and walked over to the other machine . |
20 | Hari was tired , she had worked all day and then walked over to the other side of town and back and now there was supper to get . |
21 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
22 | As the old man reluctantly accepted a sip of water , he glanced over at the other bed . |
23 | The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction . |
24 | While Heathcliff was getting his breath back , Mr Edgar walked out of the other kitchen door into the garden . |
25 | ‘ But not today , ’ she said finally , grabbed the bottle of wine and two glasses and walked back into the other room . |
26 | Karl turned and walked back along the other side of the garden , although this time Erika did not draw his attention to the words of Josef Stalin paying tribute to glorious workers , doctors , nurses , and so on . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Tom O'Neill came through the revolving doors on a blast of icy air and stepped out on the other side into a blanket of almost oppressive warmth . |
29 | Sure enough , they soon saw Mait , as he rushed out of the other side of a grotto they were just entering . |
30 | We had two minutes to get into cover and walked round to the other side of the wall and crouched down with our hands over our ears and our helmets firmly strapped on . |