Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the other " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
2 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
3 | ‘ Oh , ’ he says , then smashes the ball off the 15th tee , up over the hill and goes running after it down the other side . |
4 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
5 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
6 | There was one of them on the other side of the street . |
7 | There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane . |
8 | I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall . |
9 | Father Poole pointed to the chair opposite him on the other side of the fireplace . |
10 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
11 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
12 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
13 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
14 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
15 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
16 | They both took lookout positions on opposite sides of the roof , and although Charlie could still hear the sound of the battle , he was quite unable to make out who was getting the better of it on the other side of the forest . |
17 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
18 | So , as our planet moves on its yearly orbit around the sun , the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun for part of the year , and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it for the other part . |
19 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
20 | She gave a brief glance at the screen , dropped her jaw by at least a metre , and walked backwards , first into the back wall , and then slowly and hypnotically down our aisle , past our row — in spite of our waving and hissing cries of ‘ Mummm ! ’ — then backwards again , eyes never leaving the screen , and past us in the other direction . |
21 | We had lunch on the side of the valley as a polar bear lay sleeping opposite us on the other side ! |
22 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
23 | Beneath me on the other side of the hill was a circle of old stone huts . |
24 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
25 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
26 | Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side . |
27 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
28 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
29 | He took the two or three steps with her to the other doorway . |
30 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |