Example sentences of "[vb base] the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Fold down one wire half to lie against the stem , wind the other half around stem and wire . |
| 3 | The end of the halyard goes through the end goes through the end fitting and then we tie a little stopper knot in the end , then we bring the other end of the halyard down and make it up tight on this crease at the bottom of the mast . |
| 4 | ‘ Just go back to Lévy tomorrow and sell the other vase , ’ Jean-Claude told me rather conspiratorially when Félix had gone to his bucket . |
| 5 | Beside him sit the other island dignitaries , the representatives of each of the six communities into which the island is divided . |
| 6 | Although the resolutions , one of which dealt exclusively with rape , were adopted without a vote , Islamic states and Bosnia itself spent more than an hour in an unsuccessful effort amend the other resolution , which condemned ethnic cleansing , by deleting a reference to ‘ violations by all sides to the conflict ’ . |
| 7 | Bend your lower leg slightly to support your spine and raise the other leg slowly to an angle of 45° . |
| 8 | Connect the other end of the mains cable to the terminal blocks inside the shower unit |
| 9 | ‘ If I make the other person happy then I feel great . |
| 10 | You ca n't be accused of whingeing and complaining when you make the other person aware that you can see the positive in the situation too . |
| 11 | By this they mean that people both avoid intruding upon each other 's territory ( physical territory , a particular field of knowledge , a friendship ) and also seek to enlarge the territory of others — in Lakoff 's terms , make the other person feel good — presumably on the assumption that the same will be done to them . |
| 12 | there you go I 've made half the effort you make the other half |
| 13 | But I 'll make , I 've got to make the other half of it , so when I make the other half of it he can probably have , er have a couple of jam ones |
| 14 | but Jack is so temperamental these days , I mean the other day he went by he said oh |
| 15 | I mean the other week she wanted to go to a school disco and I said look hang on n get your priorities right . |
| 16 | They do n't like to do it what even in under those , I mean the other tooth 's nearly the same size , this is what happened with that tooth of mine there , I was |
| 17 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
| 18 | Yes , I mean the other thing is if we are absolutely honest , which we should n't be with a microphone in front of us but , if we 're absolutely honest , you know this , this is a bit of work that we 're trying to make simple |
| 19 | As a group I mean the other thing that surprised me a bit , I , I spoke to Ken yesterday and said , how did you receive ? |
| 20 | and , and sort of when can we have a script you know and you write it down and take thirty per cent of it , or whatever you know , erm , I mean the other thing that Alex has drawn er |
| 21 | The , I mean the other thing , have I , have I said that the new engine |
| 22 | I mean the other morning I looked down and somebody had thrown up in the street |
| 23 | I mean the other assumption that I did n't make until we were well into the thing was that this , the , the Friends Provident policy is actually the mortgage policy |
| 24 | When I suggest we head the other way , for Greenwich , Des shakes his head . |
| 25 | We broke windows accidentally , we were throwing erm in fact I was only talking about whip and top the other day , and erm er which was a a game we used to play . |
| 26 | When you were hanging over that skip the other evening — ’ he rolled his eyes ‘ — they seemed to go on forever . ’ |
| 27 | I expect the other sort have a ball — like Bella , ’ she added unkindly . |
| 28 | Tie a knot in one end of the cotton , so that it does not get pulled through the cup , and attach the other end to the button . |
| 29 | I even 'eard Mum say the other day she was goin' over there to get a loan . |
| 30 | What did the Minister of Health say the other day ? |