Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his friends would deliberately allow the quicksand to take them up to their knees before being extricated by the other members of the gang . |
| 2 | Progress is also being made on the other matters referred to in the White Paper . |
| 3 | The frontier AB shows the maximum quantity of goods which the economy can produce for one person given the quantity of goods being produced for the other person . |
| 4 | Hunting through her case for some lightweight shoes , and wondering if she could get away without having to wear any stockings , she gritted her teeth as she heard her name being called from the other room . |
| 5 | What was needed instead was some means of setting up the apparatus so that each detector could not ‘ know ’ in advance the polarisation being detected at the other side of the experiment . |
| 6 | The most likely explanation is that she intended some disruption of the race and , having ducked under the rails , found herself the beneficiary of the sheer coincidence of the King 's horse — whose colours she would have recognized — being isolated from the other runners . |
| 7 | Erm but what we will have to do is set up our local procedures as regards agents queries and things like that in both countries , both with and also whatever you decide in Denmark of how we run the procedure but that can be something later but what we 'll need to do is no doubt before we actually do the distribution to the agents and the erm the information out to them th why we 're going into on our own as opposed to being served by the other carriers . |
| 8 | Slovenia and Croatia had introduced their own currencies in October and December respectively , and new banknotes of the Yugoslav dinar were being issued to the other republics to prevent them being flooded with unwanted currency from Slovenia and Croatia . |
| 9 | His work revealed that the Exeter District was under-using the hospital , in so far as most patients were being admitted from the other districts in Devon . |
| 10 | Knowledge that there is strong local support for its continuation and use for worship can only help this cause and counter any arguments being put for the other side . |
| 11 | I handed back the receiver and heard Ronnie being agitated on the other end . |
| 12 | The day-to-day running of the Chaplaincy is being handled by the other Chaplains . |
| 13 | The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place . |
| 14 | I remember in my early months , often being cornered by the other choir boys after service or practice and being asked to say the collect for the week , which we always had to learn for Sunday school . |
| 15 | The victim was already distressed after being raped by the other man when D announced his intention to have sex with her . |
| 16 | Just to avoid confusion , the slave machine pops up a small banner at the top of the screen to let you know that it is being controlled from the other machine . |