Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the other [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up |
| 2 | The USA trade deficit constitutes the other source of instability within the international monetary system . |
| 3 | I even 'eard Mum say the other day she was goin' over there to get a loan . |
| 4 | The cashier holds the other key and the safe deposit box can only be opened if both locks are operated at the same time . |
| 5 | SCOTVEC has started the development process for its own staff and has prepared an outline programme to meet the other staff development needs which have been identified . |
| 6 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |
| 7 | At emission the lamp is at one height , but by the time the light reaches the other wall the capsule has fallen a little . |
| 8 | In analysing their left-hand columns , the executives found that each side blamed the other side for the difficulties , and they used the same reasons . |
| 9 | The authors concerned assume that the word " father " ( or its equivalent in other languages ) has a single meaning in itself , whereas in fact it has many different meanings depending upon what other term forms the other half of the dyadic relationship . |
| 10 | As soon as it is firmly on the boom release the other hand . |
| 11 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 12 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
| 13 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 14 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 15 | just gon na have to you know be stopped there anyway this young lad after the first fast bend he went to overtake and I could see a car coming the other way and he was like er running along side this pick-up but it was like he could n't drop back and he could n't make it either |
| 16 | If the wind blew to the South-East they would be mostly in the U.S.S.R. … if the wind blew the other way they would extend well back up into Western Europe . ’ |
| 17 | Instead of passing on this information , the defendant persuaded the other employee to leave and join his own business ; the discontented client in the meantime had agreed with the defendant that he would use him as his legal adviser in the future . |
| 18 | The distinction is important because breach of a condition gives the other party the right to repudiate the contract and claim damages . |
| 19 | ‘ The burden of the evidence rests on the other side to disprove whatever it is , and not on the other side to disprove the other side 's evidence . |
| 20 | This jacket is styled for the American market , so the pocket zips open bottom to top and the main zip connects the other way round . |
| 21 | The Leader of the Opposition said the other day , talking about education : ’ We will continue with the scale of commitment at least at the level of 1979 . |
| 22 | having had rather a nasty shock when I had the car serviced the other day . |
| 23 | 1 Peel all the vegetables and cut into matchstick-sized pieces , keeping the beetroot chips to one side to stop the other vegetables turning pink . |
| 24 | He was stood in front of me in the sandwich queue the other day and . |
| 25 | Teach your child to see the other person 's point of view ( not necessarily at the expense of his or her own ) . |
| 26 | I think very often the influence goes the other way . |
| 27 | Traditionally , I always feel that the influence goes the other way . |
| 28 | You then return to the lying flat starting position , and then go on to repeat the exercise using the other leg . |
| 29 | The idea started in our Care Committee — we raise half the money for the conversions , the Council supplies the other half . ’ |
| 30 | But if a judge errs the other way and fines a rapist a few hundred pounds , or puts on probation a bank robber with previous convictions who clearly ought to go directly to jail , nothing happens . |