Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As time went by , the casino diversified to embrace other gambling games — pontoon , for example , knock-out whist and finally bezique . |
| 2 | That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram . |
| 3 | He held her quite tightly , and tried to prevent other people from banging into her . |
| 4 | On board ship he invariably tried to hoodwink other people , even a cabin boy , into paying for his sherry . |
| 5 | He loved clubs and wardrooms with the pre-dinner drinks , the discreet signing of chitties , the smiling elderly waiters ( from a class almost extinct now , men who lived to serve other men ) . |
| 6 | The bar seemed to serve other functions besides serving drinks . |
| 7 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 8 | Kennedy was understandably wary and disposed to explore other options . |
| 9 | I mean , we 'd used other drugs and got a good hit and we just wanted to try smack to see what it was like . |
| 10 | ‘ Surely you came to discuss other matters , Master Corbett ? ’ |
| 11 | He 'd got other things to do if they did n't want him on his terms . |
| 12 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 13 | But I learnt to respect other religions . " |
| 14 | Carey led Piper back into the other half of the room , but the old man seemed to have other things to do . |
| 15 | Only the Sikh men seemed to have other things on their mind as , twirling their moustaches , they downed great tumblers of whisky and tried to lure the prettiest girls on to the dance floor . |
| 16 | He , however , seemed to have other ideas and stood in her way . |
| 17 | It gained an entrenched footing in local government through the extension of statutory town-planning procedures , which confirmed the bridgehead established before the war ; and , largely accidentally rather than by design , the activity of town planning came to involve other forms of public regulation , with the result that its field of concern was enlarged . |
| 18 | Although the matter was not completely resolved , participants agreed to discuss other points on the agenda . |
| 19 | Recognising that the apparently low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome was difficult to explain wholly in terms of currently recognised risk factors , we sought to identify other differences in infant care practices that may contribute to the lower incidence of such deaths in Bangladeshi babies . |
| 20 | The meeting supported Russia 's request to take over the Soviet Union 's seat on the UN Security Council , and Russia , Ukraine and Byelarus , already UN members , pledged to support other member states ' applications for full UN membership . |
| 21 | The ECSC also served to stimulate other developments . |
| 22 | Play eventually restarted , after what seemed like an age , and meandered to an early finish , but the freak accident served to relegate other matters — the remaining overs , a protracted row involving the England players and team manager and a cameraman attempting to capture the stretcher scene on film , and even the imminence of both countries announcing their World Cup squads — to items of secondary importance . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me about your past , ’ I began to urge other women , and they to urge me . |
| 24 | ‘ Tell me , ’ I began to urge other women , ‘ what might be ’ , and they to urge me . |
| 25 | He began to despise other men who did not look after themselves . |
| 26 | The ruling threatened to undermine other Iran-contra convictions , including that of John Poindexter , North 's former superior at the National Security Council , who was convicted of five felonies in April 1990 and who , like North , had testified to Congress under a grant of limited immunity . |
| 27 | When the river broadened , the Avignon began to encounter other craft that had started downstream from Saigon on the favourable tide , and Joseph wondered why the battered-looking Chinese junks , with their shabby , patched sails , did n't sink as they lumbered past among a succession of grimy workhorse freighters from Europe and Latin America . |
| 28 | These combined to produce a situation where users unable to obtain prescribed drugs began to develop other strategies for ‘ coming off ’ such as the purchase of street methadone mentioned above . |
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| 30 | Satisfied , I began to notice other birds , the all-the-year-round residents . |