Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Andy lies on the other pillow .
2 Andy the Mouse lies on the other pillow .
3 Andy the Mouse lies on the other pillow .
4 Freud was right , Maud thought , vigorously rubbing her white legs , desire lies on the other side of repugnance .
5 He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side .
6 Mesquite lies on the other side of miles and miles of rising desert temper .
7 Individualizing traits are the girl 's witty use of " " fayllard " " , meaning both " unsuccessful " ( with her ) and " good-for-nothing " ( generally ) and her vulgar but effective way of telling the clerk his place lies on the other side of the door to her .
8 ‘ and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence ’
9 Roll over and repeat both exercises on the other side : Hip and Thigh Extender x 15 ; Front Thigh Stretch x 5
10 The ultra vires doctrine has on the other hand been used to curtail management ‘ generosity ’ to non-shareholder groups in the form of gratuitous payments .
11 Although European railway executives see British rail traffic as important , it is quite clear that it is not crucial to plans for the development of a European network which will proceed whatever happens on the other side of the Channel .
12 Thus he wrote ‘ The general level of real wages depends on the other forces of the economic system ’ ( GT , p. 14 , original italics ) .
13 The lesson to be drawn is that the impact of debt depends on the other instruments open to the government , a point that is brought out even more clearly in the life-cycle model .
14 Whether members of staff can so continue depends on the other terms and conditions of the appointment .
15 The castle looms on the other side of the river .
16 Danger looms on the other side of the Atlantic .
17 To print , you feed the paper through one side of the machine and the document goes under the keyboard and appears on the other side .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 ‘ One is the maid , who sleeps on the other side of the house .
20 I now see a certain awkwardness in the way Summerchild sits on the other side of my desk .
21 You should always ask the questions , and that is another way that people will understand that you know what goes on the other side of the microphone .
22 scope notes on the other hand , may be present in a thesaurus but are unlikely to be transferred to an index .
23 If it is quick about it this will give the electron the chance to get over the hump and repay the loan as it emerges on the other side .
24 And indeed , watched curiously by a solitary policeman below , he passes right through a library ( ** ) by Hawksmoor , and emerges on the other side coughing slightly from the dust in the books .
25 Gas exports on the other hand will , by the end of the century , be approaching those of oil at almost 100 MTOE per year .
26 If John , apart from the important reference in Chapter 3 , which we shall consider later , avoids the term Kingdom of God , he does on the other hand lay more stress than the other three Gospels on Jesus as King of Israel ( Barrett 1960:346 ) .
27 The submission which Mr. Lester makes on the other hand is not restricted by reference to the type of statute and indeed the only way in which it could be discovered whether help was to be given is by considering Hansard itself .
28 This leads to the Kriizli Pass ( 2,347m , 7,698ft ) which descends on the other side to Sedrun on the Vorderrhein ( anterior Rhine ) valley of canton Grisons about 10km ( 6 miles ) from Disentis .
29 Schibsbye ( 1965 : 24 ) suggests on the other hand that " the infinitive with and without to corresponds in the main to the two sides of the infinitive , the nominal and the verbal " : the infinitive with to is found in positions similar to those in which one finds substantives , adjectives and adverbs , while the infinitive without to " is generally closely connected with an auxiliary verb , and forms a single unit with it as regards stress and intonation " .
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