Example sentences of "[vb past] the other [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in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 . |
| 2 | The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment . |
| 3 | It made the other planes droning around the dull sky look puny . |
| 4 | But what I really want is for the book to be read and enjoyed by the people who read the other books . |
| 5 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 6 | Steel caps rated as offensive weapon , especially at matches , so the Dr. Marten soon banished the other styles . |
| 7 | He nodded and the bookie nodded back , his eyes everywhere as he scanned the other faces , looking for takers amid the din . |
| 8 | The existing management was organised around establishments , each with its own board of management , its own financial system , its own marketing and commercial organisation , its safety infrastructure , administration and so on , but with business interests which overlapped the other establishments . |
| 9 | ‘ They got the other women to call me that so that they would n't like me . |
| 10 | He checked the other windows , knowing at the same time that it was pointless . |
| 11 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 12 | But by the time Eachuinn Odhar 's great lymphad led the other galleys sweeping back in triumph along the Sound of Mull , Ruari and Luch had told the bees that Lachlan Cattanach had a fine bull-voiced boy , named Alan . |
| 13 | The three explorers set off beside the brook , while Hazel led the other rabbits across the field and up to the edge of the woodland . |
| 14 | John must have been so angry , I know that now , he 's still angry , John did n't shout at Dad or anything , or throw a tantrum , he just stood there and looked at Dad and realized the other boys would call him a liar and what could he do ? ’ |
| 15 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 16 | On the other hand , there might be circumstances where an employer would be vicariously liable for a conspiracy involving his servants provided the other requirements of that form of liability are met . |
| 17 | He had drawn up the list of church members and he maintained the other lists too . |
| 18 | Russia , it was widely argued , subsidised the other republics to the extent of 70 billion rubles a year . |
| 19 | The negotiations that were taking place between the health authority and other organizations chiefly involved the other branches of the NHS . |
| 20 | They were originally approached by a client and , on the client 's behalf , they then approached the other banks that participated in the exercise ( as well as a number that refused to ) . |
| 21 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 22 | They disturbed the other patients and should not come again . |
| 23 | He visited the other dioceses of his province , including a tour of several days to the Isle of Man . |
| 24 | To celebrate his fortune to come , he invited the other dealers for a drink that night at the local pub . |
| 25 | Being a man , he would have used the condoms and quietly dropped the other things through some charity shop 's letter box . |
| 26 | Clive Allen , Tim Breacker and Trevor Morley scored the other Hammers ' goals while John Durnin , Jim Magilton and Andrew Melville netted for Oxford . |
| 27 | Watt , Millard and Gray scored the other tries with Dods adding two conversions and one penalty . |
| 28 | ‘ It was like them pictures of Hell we used to get in Sunday school , ’ she told the other women when she returned to work two days later . |
| 29 | So she went away and I never pressurised her and I told the other girls not to ask questions or anything , just to leave her . |
| 30 | She told the other girls about it and they found his ignorance quaint and charming . |