Example sentences of "order [verb] the other " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to win an election , a party would make extravagant promises , doing so in order to outbid the other party . |
| 2 | Sergeant Bird watched fascinated while Frobisher diligently examined every vessel , finally dissecting them right off the base of the brain in order to see the other side . |
| 3 | The focus on the addresser , for instance a speaker or an author , constitutes the emotive function , that of expressing the addresser 's attitudes or feelings ; the focus on the addressee or receiver , the conative function , that of influencing the feelings or attitudes of the addressee ; the focus on the context , the real , external situation in which the message occurs , the referential function ; the focus on the code , as when a message elucidates a point of grammar , the metalingual function ; the focus on the means of contact , as in the case , say , of expressions inserted by one party into a telephone conversation simply in order to reassure the other party that they are both still on the line , the phatic function ; the focus on the message itself , the poetic function . |
| 4 | Rehearsals went on as usual every morning but in order to disturb the other passengers as little as possible , they had to get up very early and work in a screened-off area . |
| 5 | But on the flight from Desperus , Katarina sacrifices her life in order to save the other three from the evil intentions of a psychopathic multi-killer , Kirksen . |
| 6 | It gives pride of place , however to the householder , whose order supports the other three . |
| 7 | It was n't necessary for him to throw the game in order to please the other man — his particular business was a seller 's market . |