Example sentences of "[verb] the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Er , we met the other day . |
| 2 | Gregson met the other man 's gaze and pulled a small photograph from the inside pocket of his jacket . |
| 3 | After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown . |
| 4 | The designer uses the o to help design the other letters : first to define the shoulder of the n ; from that , the h . |
| 5 | [ I intend pursuing the other objectives this Autumn . ] |
| 6 | He unlocked the other cupboard , opened both doors and ran his finger along the top shelf . |
| 7 | If you choose to abandon formality ( 'Why do n't we discuss this over a drink ? ' ) then you are playing high status in that you 're taking this decision , and allowing the other person perhaps to rise above their station . |
| 8 | Obviously , the Nimbus pilot was at fault for allowing the other people at the launch point to influence his judgement . |
| 9 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 10 | this geezer from Bedlam yeah got stopped the other day in this car yeah , he was pissed , he was tripping and he was speeding yeah , no M O T , no licence , no tax , no ruddy insurance yeah |
| 11 | If the company 's business involves dealing in goods the records must also contain a statement of stock held at the end of the financial year and statements of stocktakings from which that was prepared , and , except in the case of goods sold in the ordinary course of retail trade , statements of all goods sold or purchased , in sufficient detail to enable the other party to be identified . |
| 12 | Contacting the other s ide 's witnesses |
| 13 | While not naming the other candidates , Mazowiecki in his resignation speech criticized the " many promises made without backing " and the " many strong , often demagogical accusations " made against the government . |
| 14 | In the sonnets on the Rival Poet , for instance , whether the first or second person dominates , the technique of praising the other poet while denigrating oneself is clearly ironic , as J. W. Lever 's discussion has shown . |
| 15 | Follow it with a question that involves the other person . |
| 16 | A wronged woman might stab her husband with scissors , cut up his clothes or ram the other woman 's car , but the consequences are not predictable . |
| 17 | They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists . |
| 18 | and you 've got to go the other way . |
| 19 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 20 | Th th the trouble is the government seems to go the other way , and er , when when it should be learning my opinion , lowering the age at which you receive your pension , they want to extend the age into which you have to work . |
| 21 | I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way . |
| 22 | Then if you want blue to go the other side of the hoop and black to go here say , to the black wo n't go quite so far and the blue will . |
| 23 | anyway to go the other side on the other |
| 24 | An individual who can control and coordinate the other team members , who recognises their talents but is not threatened by them , and who is concerned with what is feasible rather than what is exciting or imaginative . |
| 25 | In order to win an election , a party would make extravagant promises , doing so in order to outbid the other party . |
| 26 | Fold down one wire half to lie against the stem , wind the other half around stem and wire . |
| 27 | ‘ But understand , from my side , that I 'd like to see her once a fortnight , if it 's just for an hour , and that whatever holidays the other bairns have , she 's got to have the same . |
| 28 | Any other bird would have flown the other way . |
| 29 | New signing Alex Taylor from Falkirk ‘ made the other play and had a great game ’ , according to Collins , while recalled striker Colin McGlashen found renewed zest for the game . |
| 30 | " Only the Commander was upset with nerves on account of a remark I made the other night . |