Example sentences of "[adv] at the other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He looked down at the other hand neatly folded in his lap .
2 ‘ You 're lucky you 're up this end of the Cages with us because there 's … ’ and here he dropped his voice into a horrified whisper , ‘ … there 's a couple of vultures down at the other end .
3 It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand
4 Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) .
5 They were dug in at the other end of the village in an orchard very close to the enemy positions .
6 It does n't matter that they may be 700 miles away at the other end of a data link .
7 Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end .
8 And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’
9 Various people answered , and no one knew where anyone was , and only three or four times was Alistair successfully connected to the apparently permanent coughing fit that crackled away at the other end of Smith 's extension .
10 As the old man reluctantly accepted a sip of water , he glanced over at the other bed .
11 His men followed , shooting up at the ship 's railings , and elsewhere at the other Germans in scattered positions .
12 The tobacco trade has become part of Gibraltar culture and is legal there , but not at the other end .
13 I recall summer commenced on 1 May in Newcastle for our ‘ shirt sleeve order ’ ; meanwhile at the other end of the Northumbrian body , para. 32 of the order commands that ‘ trousers will be worn with the bottoms of the trouser legs , at the front , just touching the instep ’ .
14 I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back .
15 The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’
16 They were done once at the other house were n't they ?
17 He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words .
18 The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room .
19 She wanted to spend as much time as possible with them and ended up at the other end of the plane . ’
20 The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 .
21 The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox .
22 With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late !
23 Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad .
24 To the left of the camera , and probably at the other end of the studio to get the size ratio right , we had a black draped set for the miniaturised companion to walk in front of .
25 We easily recognise the aggressive action of a horse that snakes its head towards a newcomer , puts its ears back , pulls up its nostrils , and raises one leg ready to lash out at the other horse .
26 ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said .
27 They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars .
28 Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever .
29 A partial parasite , mistletoe relies on birds such as thrushes eating its oily berries and dropping the seeds out at the other end on to the branches of trees where they perch .
30 Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves .
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