Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My guess is that one of them found the other end of the conduit , maybe the Fax machine at Pegasus or evidence of Cawthorne acting on information he should n't have had . |
| 2 | " Only the Commander was upset with nerves on account of a remark I made the other night . |
| 3 | It 's what I made the other week . |
| 4 | Oh is that that steak I got the other night ? |
| 5 | I 've still got 300 sets left over from that job lot I got the other Christmas . |
| 6 | I tried the other side of the corridor and back-tracked . |
| 7 | That 's what I found the other day anyway . |
| 8 | with erm the hill top , and I drew the other triangle , |
| 9 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 10 | So she went away and I never pressurised her and I told the other girls not to ask questions or anything , just to leave her . |
| 11 | Marius dragged me back to camp and afterwards I told the other legionnaires how she had wanted to sleep with me , but I had turned her down . |
| 12 | I HAD EVEN WRITTEN : ONE , THE TRAVELLING COMPANION , WHICH WAS RETURNED BY AN EDITOR ON THE PLEA THAT IT WAS A WORK : OF GENIUS AND INDECENT , AND WHICH I BURNED THE OTHER DAY ON THE GROUND THAT IT WAS NOT A WORK OF GENIUS , AND THAT JEKYLL HAD SUPPLANTED IT . |
| 13 | I noticed the other quote was over two hundred flaming quid , and you 've knocked me down ! |
| 14 | Those curtains in there Paula the side , you know that track I repaired the other night |
| 15 | Sheepishly I fed the other meter , too , and slouched in to see my Alexander Technique teacher , who 's helping me to stand up straight . |
| 16 | As I made inroads into both , I sussed the other punters and though the place was fairly quiet there were a couple of city gents in suits talking earnestly and drinking fast . |
| 17 | I announced such a review at a conference that I addressed the other day . |
| 18 | So it was your petition I signed the other day , was it ? |
| 19 | Or so I heard the other day over lunch from Patricia Routledge , best known as television 's appalling social climber , Hyacinth Bucket . |
| 20 | Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ? |
| 21 | Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’ |
| 22 | I heard the other day . |
| 23 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 24 | I heard the other day that you were thinking of selling your practice and moving away . ’ |
| 25 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 26 | Now if I could try and translate that into your particular sphere of interest , you are doing things with noise , with food , with roofs I heard the other day , yesterday , which surprised me , and a variety of other things , which people understand . |
| 27 | And when I confessed the other day in the King 's Head that we were off on a trip to Dartington , there were cynical smiles . |
| 28 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 29 | I watched the other passengers go on towards the passport control and the futility of my own expedition was now only too clear . |
| 30 | I did n't see no harm in getting paid twice for my trouble , so I called the other number . ’ |