Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 2 | Talk to Robin Slade and you know he 's a man who 's studied his sheep ; not from the point of view of winning awards with animals at the other end of a halter , but from a desire to produce the ideal carcass with that all-important round muscle . |
| 3 | But with Gazza at one end of the scales , even a pound of turnips at the other end will come close to achieving that . |
| 4 | Patrick , crouched over his books at the other end of the table , never asked his advice ; but then Patrick had always been faintly hostile and jealous of a masculine encroachment on a territory that had been his alone since the departure of the two eldest boys . |
| 5 | Again , if you find you arc always walking back and forth to a larder or pantry , or to shelves at the other end of the kitchen , a storage trolley or cart which you could wheel up when necessary should help . |
| 6 | Out-gunned 11 caps to three , Tigers ended a run of defeats in this annual frolic with a five-try triumph , topped off with a typical Baa-Baas ' style try , started in front of their own posts and finished by Tony Underwood behind the posts at the other end . |
| 7 | The worst bit was to come , when the steamer rolled over and took in water over her bulwarks at one side , then rolled straight over and took in water over her bulwarks at the other side . |
| 8 | For example , high-bandwidth cable could be vital in services in which people ‘ dial up ’ their banks from home to conduct financial transactions , perhaps with organisations at the other end of the country or even abroad . |
| 9 | They divined the contents of sealed envelopes by the simple expedient of opening the staples at the other end of the envelope . |
| 10 | The brass shop was laid out with the rough brass stores on one side , whence the castings passed to the machines , thence to the benches , and from there to the polishers , next to the platers and finally to the lacquerers at the other side of the shop , each operation in turn bringing the parts further across the shop . |
| 11 | He already has Tony Adams banned from the heart of his defence over Christmas and the last thing George wants to worry about is problems at the other end . |
| 12 | Philip Major rescued Ports at the other end with a neat challenge on Macartney — but minutes later Cunningham put the visitors ahead . |
| 13 | In any case they were told that the count was waiting and the waiter indicated the man who stood in the shadows at the other side of the foyer . |
| 14 | As the rest of the retinue began to come , straggling , into the yard , Groa dismissed her steward and went to her rooms at the other end of the hall , where Anghared , Ferteth 's wife , was sewing stockings and talking to Eochaid 's sister Maire , who was teaching one of Sinna 's girls how to embroider . |
| 15 | The Führer was talking to the other man in a low voice and totally ignored them as he passed and descended the stairs at the other end of the passage . |
| 16 | There was the roaring and stamping of a herd of drunks at the other end of the corridor . |
| 17 | Over the exclamations and tears at the other end she mechanically repeated her message . |
| 18 | He saw one of his friends at the other end of the road . |
| 19 | if ever you get to the stage where the left of the party or the right of the party , either extreme wing , feel that they 've got such power , that they can pull the whole thing their way , the danger is that the bits at the other end will snap and that of course is the disunity danger which had absolutely devastated the Labour party , where the left did exactly that and the moderate centre That 's if you can call it that , snapped off . |
| 20 | No , it 's not the case , they are X-ray images that we are looking at and it means that we can have er real time conversation with the doctors at the other end to advise whether the patient should be transferred to us or stay within the , in the hospital where they are , er whatever 's best at the time . |
| 21 | The match barely rose above mediocrity in the opening stages , with Darlington 's main tactic of pumping balls forward to Steve Mardenborough constantly breaking down , while Darren Patterson and former Feethams striker Gary Worthington were well wide with left foot shots at the other end . |
| 22 | She paid the bill and walked back through the dining car , drawing glances from the two men at the other end with the portable phones . |
| 23 | So there will be an accumulation of electrons on the surface of one of the plates and consequently a deficiency of electrons at the other plate 's surface . |
| 24 | So that you know that I do takes notes at the other end . |
| 25 | For Spurs , substitute Hendry was denied three times at the other end by Rees . |
| 26 | In a detailed study of premature mortality in North Tyne side , Phillimore ( 1989 ) has shown that people aged under 65 in the two worst-off wards are subject to mortality rates around 50 per cent higher than the national average , while in the two wards at the other extreme the rates are 30 per cent below average . |
| 27 | In this case , try feeding at one end of the tank and then , while the bolder fish are busy , feed the timid ones at the other end . |
| 28 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |
| 29 | In the original fertilized egg , for instance , certain chemicals congregate at one end of the cell , others at the other end . |
| 30 | Most of the staff began to fall on this with cries of delight , but as he looked around , Amiss saw two sad brown faces at the other end of the table . |