Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I learnt to respect other religions . " |
| 2 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 3 | Satisfied , I began to notice other birds , the all-the-year-round residents . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me about your past , ’ I began to urge other women , and they to urge me . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me , ’ I began to urge other women , ‘ what might be ’ , and they to urge me . |
| 6 | ‘ I did have other priorities . ’ |
| 7 | I had loved other patients . |
| 8 | I had experienced other bird observatories ; some were less well-endowed with the amenities of civilised living . |
| 9 | I had learned other things . |
| 10 | It can be said I wanted to taste other joys which were available in life before the inevitable disaster . |
| 11 | I wanted to try other women , but I could n't bring myself to do it . |
| 12 | looks like th that thing you got left other day . |
| 13 | That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram . |
| 14 | ‘ Surely you came to discuss other matters , Master Corbett ? ’ |
| 15 | She began visiting other workhouses in London , the rest of England , and abroad . |
| 16 | She loved guessing other people 's reading tastes . |
| 17 | She had turned other men — men she did n't hate — away at her door before now without going through all this prior angst , meeting the moment with the tact or firmness it required when it came , but not before . |
| 18 | Recognising that the apparently low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome was difficult to explain wholly in terms of currently recognised risk factors , we sought to identify other differences in infant care practices that may contribute to the lower incidence of such deaths in Bangladeshi babies . |
| 19 | I mean , we 'd used other drugs and got a good hit and we just wanted to try smack to see what it was like . |
| 20 | We had to get other people to finish off the work . ’ |
| 21 | We had to find other diversions . |
| 22 | Yesterday , to our consternation and when in fact we had cancelled other plans for the meeting , eight people arrived here at 2.00 pm for a meeting we had anticipated would commence at 11.30 am at the latest . |
| 23 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 24 | They would be free from slavery , from work they were unsuited to do , but they lost a way of life , they had to look after their children for longer , they had to find other work to keep the family fed , clothed , rent paid etc . |
| 25 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 26 | The national selectors indicated before England 's unexpected success in the HDM international tournament at The Hague that they wanted to test other members of their squad before the team is announced for the first official internationals of the season , the Four Nation tournament at Crystal Palace in a month 's time . |
| 27 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 28 | He 'd got other things to do if they did n't want him on his terms . |
| 29 | He began to despise other men who did not look after themselves . |
| 30 | He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize . |