Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] the other " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Get into the main street , we can try to lose ourselves amongst the other cabs . ’ |
| 2 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 3 | Jack was coming towards her , and flattened himself against the other side . |
| 4 | When Manfro detached himself from the other men and came to walk by her side , Topaz glared at him . |
| 5 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 6 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 7 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 8 | Jeremy settles Kate on a rattan sofa with a whisky , flicks on the stereo and then sits down himself at the other end of the sofa , making sure that she notices his careful maintenance of physical space between them . |
| 9 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 10 | Encourage her to put herself in the other person 's shoes with explanations and reasons along the lines of : ‘ How would you feel if … ? ’ |
| 11 | She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them . |
| 12 | Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing . |
| 13 | ‘ Wow , ’ said Lydia , heaving herself to the other side of the bed and plumping up her pillow . |
| 14 | Almost without knowing how she had got there , Folly found herself on the other side of the double doors , pushing through a curtain of leaves that shrouded the entrance . |
| 15 | In another moment she would find herself on the other side of the door , facing disaster . |
| 16 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just telling you that I reckon it was a good idea — to wait a day before going back to New York , ’ Carole repeated , smiling to herself at the other girl 's slightly abstracted expression . |
| 18 | After a quick wash and shave , dressed in a freshly pressed kilt and battledress blouse , polished boots and all , I presented myself with the other Commandos at the orderly room to get my hands on that very important rail pass . |
| 19 | As I do not , as a rule , take alcohol , the one glass of sherry I had with lunch enabled me to enjoy myself with the other guests . |
| 20 | Right , right , would you like to sort of start getting yourselves into the other room . |
| 21 | Try putting yourself into the other person 's shoes . |
| 22 | I felt I was going mad last night , so I wrote and wrote and wrote myself into the other world . |
| 23 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 24 | Apply the principles : check it out ahead of time and put yourself in the other person 's place . |
| 25 | Empathy is the ability to put yourself in the other person 's shoes and see the situation from their point of view . |
| 26 | If you can put yourself in the other person 's shoes and think about how they might feel , it will certainly help if you let them know that . |
| 27 | Feeling as if I was still asleep and having a very curious dream , I settled myself on the other side of the hearth from the stranger and took a sip of cocoa . |
| 28 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |
| 29 | The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades . |
| 30 | In Kingsley 's social novels particularly , the diseases of the poor have a way of transmitting themselves to the other nation by way of their omissions — neglected ponds or the products of tailors ’ sweat-shops . |