Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Andean Declaration on the initiative , the participants agreed to work with other Latin American countries and the USA in order to formulate the necessary mechanisms to bring it into existence . |
| 2 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 3 | They tried to talk of other things than murder and violence but there were too many reminders . |
| 4 | Mosley now tried to collaborate with other anti-war forces , but to little avail although this activity was to prove disastrous for the BUF in 1940 . |
| 5 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 6 | He felt he was going to climax early and desperately tried to think of other things to take his mind off it in order to last until she was ready . |
| 7 | He tried to think of other names , and remembered one ; Olivia . |
| 8 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 9 | The Witnesses of the Total Merge catalogued all those ships believed to belong to other client species of the Capellans . |
| 10 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 11 | " I learnt to live with other people when I was in the Services , but when you 've paid for your own room and it is n't your domain you feel insecure . |
| 12 | Then when I proposed the next day , and made you tell me exactly how far you 'd gone with other men — ’ |
| 13 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 14 | The ‘ possible worlds ’ which had interested earlier thinkers now seemed realized in other societies , as history and anthropology became developed ; but in contrast to human societies , nature seemed fixed and uncompromising . |
| 15 | This never seemed to happen to other diving reptiles such as the ichthyosaurs . |
| 16 | And as she left court with cheering supporters , Kiranjit Ahluwalia vowed to campaign for other wives in prison for killing their violent husbands . |
| 17 | She knew how much he hated relying on other people or being involved in their affairs . |
| 18 | When it was realised that , in proportion to body weight , women 's brains were in fact heavier than those of men , scientists began to search for other measures of difference . |
| 19 | He began experimenting with other drugs in use at the time and , using his extensive knowledge of botany , he investigated the effects of a number of medicinal plants , both on himself and on a small circle of friends and pupils . |
| 20 | Ever since the Sumerians , the Assyrians and the Persians began trading with other early civilisations thousands of years ago , Oman 's natural harbours have played an important role in world history . |
| 21 | The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give . |
| 22 | Once it became clear that there was no possibility of raising the funds for the National Trust or English Heritage to take on the house , SAVE began to look at other options . |
| 23 | Slowly I began to stumble across other disaffected Irish women and I felt like a traveller finding a friendly inn after a long , cold journey . |
| 24 | To this end , he began to negotiate with other Christian princes . |
| 25 | Imports continued into the 1950s and the black-and-whites began to spread to other parts of the country , continuing to spread and increase during the 1960s when the national herd as a whole was decreasing . |
| 26 | It began to spread to other areas after 1770 but it was not until about 1830 , when roads were improving , that this relatively isolated breed was gradually developed for dray-pulling as well . |
| 27 | Nigel began to think of other ways to finance his ‘ research ’ , since a large advance was not forthcoming . |
| 28 | I began to think of other things . |
| 29 | Consider , for instance , how Rupert Croft-Cooke , out to discredit Gide 's account of Wilde 's seduction of him ( Gide ) into a confirmed homosexuality ( above , Chapter 1 ) , writes of Gide that he ‘ picked up ( among others ) the Algerian boy prostitute Athman , who became known to other visiting Europeans , including Eugène Rouart and Francis Jammes and was brought to Paris by Henri Ghéon ’ . |
| 30 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |