Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 2 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 3 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 4 | Six men were saying to the other six : Whatever else divides us , whatever else is between us , only one thing matters . |
| 5 | We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening . |
| 6 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |
| 7 | The girl was walking on the other side of the pavement . |
| 8 | Not only that , but the way the light came around the edges and through the door would enable you to perceive clearly and in three dimensions what was happening on the other side of the door ! |
| 9 | Mr. Lorrimer 's voice , frail and querulous , was bleating at the other end . |
| 10 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 11 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 12 | We was living in the other house then |
| 13 | Nigel could n't actually see what the doctor was writing on the other side of his desk , but he could guess . |
| 14 | No I was looking at the other one . |
| 15 | Now I was looking at the other fella a strong comparison , I was mixing him up with I |
| 16 | Neither was listening to the other talk and I thought it would be a good moment to fetch the rhubarb tart . |
| 17 | Jed did n't know it , but Celia was listening on the other side of the curtain , her laughter stifled by a mouthful of number 42 . |
| 18 | Rain was sure she was listening on the other side of it . |
| 19 | Ellen was grinning from the other couch , but I was in no mood to humour her amusement . |
| 20 | She looked round to where her sister was searching through the other books . |
| 21 | and then they computer people , and it , both the firms have gone bust , and each one was suing from the other for , er , insurance |
| 22 | Bernie was squatting on the other side of the trolley . |
| 23 | The next day I was told to pack my stuff up because I was going on the other side [ to another wing ] . |
| 24 | Did n't walk home with me cos I had to go I was and wa , was going to the other side . |
| 25 | And he gets up and sees the situation and remember , he said , Jesus was n't out for joy ride , he was n't just passing an evening relaxing and unwinding and resting away from the crowd , he had gone into the boat for a purpose , he was going to the other side , and no storm was gon na stop him getting there ! |
| 26 | I was waiting for the other half when Oliver fled . |
| 27 | ‘ At Cadwell I was flying past the other 600s and even had the legs on some of the 750s . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't realize it was the ‘ Queen of Casterbridge market ’ I was speaking to the other night . |
| 29 | A wisp of smoke was rising from the other side of a clump of bushes on the edge of one hayfield where the hay had been stacked . |
| 30 | I WAS sitting on the other side of the fence with a vengeance on Friday evening , when I joined a large and motley chorus to sing Hiawatha 's Wedding Feast by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor . |