Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at the other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had five whole days to go yet before she might chance to see Vendelin Gajdusek , she mused and , suddenly fired with enthusiasm , and mobile , she toyed with the idea of taking a look at the other spa towns — if they were not too far distant .
2 Now could you get together and spend five or six minutes as a group , having a look at the other group 's presentation and could you please make a note
3 it 's ju it 's just to get a look at the other side so that you can see that erm
4 Yeah , that 's right well we 've got ta put them round anyway but once I 've got that on I can take the st steps in then no , I shall leave those there I 'll just go and have a look at the other frame .
5 This kind of assessment may be difficult if you are looking for a photographer at the other end of the country .
6 The railway company 's coat of arms is on the western portal of local stone , while a plaque at the other end records the name of the engineer who built it , Josiah Jessop .
7 Cross , 19 , admitted it was a wrench to leave Plymouth for a club at the other end of the country .
8 You lose the parcel but it 's end up for example in the , they used a contractor at the other end because we lost the parcel but they 're not responsible for that .
9 Wheelbarrows of mud are carted from one site to help form a containing mound for a pond at the other end .
10 Mallender and Malcolm were easy meat for yorkers , and even Tufnell , who remained not-out , was knocked off his feet by a boot-crusher at the other end from Waqar .
11 It was a lady at the other end .
12 Retreat for marchers fleeing them was blocked by a cordon at the other end of Duke Street , where police also charged the demonstrators .
13 It measured 4.9m by 4.3m ( 16 ft by 14 ft ) , and had full length storage at one end , and low level storage — for files , journals and papers — under a window at the other end .
14 This was said meaningfully ; there was a sigh at the other end of the line .
15 But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ .
16 He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles .
17 As this last thought passed through his mind , Mr Berkley noticed a disturbance at the other side of the cinema .
18 Lee gave him a shove , there was some pushing and tripping up , Kevin fell over into Dean 's lap and a woman at the other end of the car shouted that if they did n't behave themselves she 'd find someone at Goldhawk Road who would make them .
19 ( A chair at the other end of the room or isolation in a safe , unstimulating ( unfrightening ) room elsewhere in the house are your other options ; It is preferable not to use your child 's bedroom , since you do n't wish to associate it with punishment . )
20 The mother 's handbag lay on a chair at the other end of the table .
21 Then , just as she was thinking she had better sound battle stations because he did n't look best pleased by what he saw , he suggested affably , ‘ Come on in , take a seat , ’ and indicated a chair at the other side of his desk .
22 The Headmaster opened a door at the other end of the hallway .
23 There was a door at the other end of the tunnel .
24 So , when he popped into his food store and found a door at the other end was open to the outside world with one bound he was free .
25 A voice at the other end said wearily in a faintly Irish accent .
26 ‘ Hullo , ’ said a voice at the other end , ‘ the Poisons Unit . ’
27 ‘ Skraw-aak ! ’ screamed a voice at the other end .
28 But er , that 's a great advantage when compared with the newly appointed British Ambassador in Washington , who having just arrived in Washington , er picked up the telephone and heard a voice at the other end , say , what do you want for Christmas , it was just before Christmas , what do you want for Christmas , and he thought hastily and , did n't want to be impolite or too greedy , so he said a small box of crystallised fruit , and put the telephone down , and a few momen a few moments later he put on the radio , and the announcer said , we 've just conducted our normal review of the Ambassadors ' wishes for Christmas , er , the the Ambassadors in Washington .
29 Taff was with the 3″ mortar team as they continued to send over the occasional mortar bomb , their target a crossroads at the other end of the village .
30 Paul Bodin then went and missed a penalty and within minutes United had a second from a penalty at the other end … well that 's what the referee said … but there was no question about Paul Allen 's kick …
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