Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Sir Eric and Lady Paignton were there , a kindly , elderly couple , who lived on the other side of the village , and one or two people from Clyst St George ; and a fat , over-dressed little woman who turned out to be Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
2 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
3 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
4 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
5 | ‘ I think I 'll go across and have a chat with that young fallow who came in the other day , ’ Phil said in a conversational tone to no one in particular and rushed out to Sister Cooney 's office . |
6 | It soon went too fast for him and the village pastor who appeared from the other direction was nearly frightened to death ! |
7 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
8 | They passed from her to Louis , who sat at the other end of the sofa reading Le Figaro . |
9 | The photograph was n't very much like the girl who sat on the other side of the desk , but passport photographs seldom are much like their originals . |
10 | He looked at Lady Horne who sat on the other side of the fireplace , an ivory and pearl rosary entwined around her fingers . |