Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 2 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 3 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 4 | ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior . |
| 5 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 6 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 7 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
| 8 | Determined not to show fear , Isabel stood her ground before the rage in Matilda 's eyes , staring back at the other woman defiantly . |
| 9 | He stumbled but did n't fall , turning his motion to attack with balletic ease , and coming back at the other man with tremendous force . |
| 10 | Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves . |
| 11 | Ewen Mackay had been staring hard at the other man while they talked . |
| 12 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 13 | Rory snapped back to the present , smiling apologetically at the other woman . |