Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals .
2 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 .
3 ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior .
4 I was all for passing by on the other side of the road , but Buffy would n't let it drop .
5 There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’
6 It 's very helpful for both sides of the community , I 'm sure , to have contact like this and I think that the programme is usually very well devised in that you do have something either of mutual interest or one area and then the other area so that we can be informed about erm what 's going on in the other section of the community .
7 How are things going on from the other point of view ?
8 ‘ If you can do that , then you have in your mind what the strong target notes are and you can start going in with the other notes of the scale .
9 It was only as we were doing this and grinning inanely at each other that I noticed the red Transit van turning out of the other end of the street .
10 are writing the remit and then the remits are n't going out to the other competitors .
11 Jim Perrin , interviewing the climber John Gill , refers to how some hypnagogic states have their parallels in situations of action and describes how , on easy routes , Gill ‘ could feel himself weaving in and out of the rock , peering out from the other side of its surface ’ .
12 The mood of Bank Holiday reflects that of a nation knowing that war must come , but other films dealt more directly with the storm clouds building up on the other side of the Channel .
13 The danger of cracking heads with Bairstow flying in from the other side is as good a reason as any for its omission .
14 The lyrics deal with teenage frustrations and breaking through to the other side .
15 As opposed to the Islamic loony now prancing around on the other side of the room , thought Robert bitterly .
16 Agnes went back into the cottage and , hearing Alisdair moving around in the other room , poured the water into a basin so that he might wash .
17 Moving round to the other side of the bed , the nurse proceeded to change the bottle on the I.V .
18 The doctor and the priest , stepping back on the other side of the room , murmured to each other .
19 Tom had meanwhile dug up his turnips , and set to work hedging , digging ditches and helping out with the other farms , when the extra labour was needed .
20 Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise .
21 Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers .
22 When you come to doing along on the other side make sure they 're beautiful parallel
23 There was one obvious difference : she was coming through from the Other Side .
24 His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours .
25 The BBC itself , via its Enterprises section , rescued the day by coming up with the other half of a total £450,000 budget .
26 Determined not to show fear , Isabel stood her ground before the rage in Matilda 's eyes , staring back at the other woman defiantly .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Well no it does n't , if there 's nothing , if there 's nothing coming round from the other way it does n't go .
30 ‘ Very good ! and oh ! up jumps the bee and goes buzzing over to the other side — to — to Max 's book , and he says to Max , bzz , bzz Mr Max , have you got any flowers for me to eat ? and Max says — ssh , can you hear him … ? ’
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