Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] the other " in BNC.
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| 1 | PowerGen , which along with the other English generator , National Power , makes up 50 per cent of BR 's freight business , said the contract would be cancelled from next spring when BR privatisation is due to get under way . |
| 2 | So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King . |
| 3 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 4 | ‘ You can not be satisfied with a system which means votes do not have equal value and where , unless you live in a marginal constituency elections pass you by on the other side . |
| 5 | Her marrying Dad did n't screw me up like the other two . |
| 6 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 7 | A state enterprise may be able to manoeuvre among the diverse pressures on it , playing one off against the other ( Levy 1987 ) ; what Feigenbaum ( 1982 : 113 ) refers to as ‘ corporate manipulation of the state ’ . |
| 8 | When there were two or more people together , often one would point them out to the other , and they then quite clearly discussed them . |
| 9 | Jenkins picked up another four and handed them out to the other customers sitting at the counter . |
| 10 | He grunted by way of greeting as the fat widow dumped herself down on the other chair , but did not raise his eyes from his reading . |
| 11 | Rosa flung herself over to the other side of the bed . |
| 12 | He steered her in between the other villagers with fierce concentration . |
| 13 | You held her down for the other one . |
| 14 | Lucy said yes and Jay led her through to the other room . |
| 15 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |
| 16 | Nutty stopped Midnight and brought him into the centre and Nails thought he was going to get a rest , but she immediately sent him off in the other direction . |
| 17 | If he improves over the next 3–4 years and lasts until he 's 30 , then you will have to put him up alongside the other 2 . |
| 18 | She changed seats with Hugo so that she sat with her back to the other diners . |
| 19 | So the bit was taken out of his mouth and put back in the proper place , and Wendy continued to calmly trot him around with the other horses ; and Huckleberry kept putting his tongue over the bit again , and again , and again . |
| 20 | It was seven and the night nurse had already begun her round at the other side of the house when he slipped downstairs . |
| 21 | Libby would not watch ; she hated the high-pitched squealing as the rabbits panicked , hearing a stick thump or a shot ring out , seeing the warm fur parting in the breeze as someone threw it down beside the other corpses . |
| 22 | One after another , men failed in their attempts to drive the nails , usually succeeding in bending them , so I was proud when Dad , using the skill gained over so many years at the anvil , gave his nail an almighty thump sending it through to the other side of the board . |
| 23 | ‘ One more thing ! ’ his voice stopped her before she made it through to the other side . |
| 24 | Lee slipped off the bike and Philip wheeled it over to the other side of the road . |
| 25 | Just stop your tape first and er turn it over to the other side first . |
| 26 | Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind . |
| 27 | For example among all the delays which push work into the winter period there must be some which push it out of the other end of winter into summer . |
| 28 | So what we 're doing is we then send them this , why do n't we pass it out to the other piece of the group ? |
| 29 | I think they showed that one Christmas or something and were watching something else and we turned over and the instant we turned over , this girl wobbled across the screen , and my mum straight away switched it back on the other side me and me brothers right in the other room watching there . |
| 30 | Got it back across the other fella really could n't quite get enough power on the shot . |