Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] other [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You ca n't answer for the other officers but you can answer for yourself . |
2 | Touching : We all know when something is so hot that it burns our fingers or so sharp that it hurts to touch it — but how much do we think about the other things we touch ? |
3 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
4 | Did Maxham know about the other meetings with Fred ? |
5 | I do n't know about the other items . |
6 | Or perhaps he felt he had no choice , perhaps he did n't know about the other places in the city which he could have gone to ; anyway he became a real regular , and soon he was there most nights , in fact every night , six nights a week , The Bar being open every day of the week except Monday , usually from the afternoon and always until three a.m. ( at least officially ) . |
7 | ‘ Would you rather wait for the other ladies ? ’ he ventured , obviously torn between his duty and the thought of her sitting alone in such rowdy company for several minutes . |
8 | It stops INTERRUPTIONS If you take turns in listening to each other you will wait for the other person to finish before you come in . |
9 | I did n't know until the other day . |
10 | Chen looked past Axel momentarily , lifting his chin , indicating to Wang Ti that she should wait in the other room , then he looked back at Axel , his face creased with concern , his voice suddenly softer , more sympathetic . |
11 | However , an ex gratia payment to an older man who has no full-time employment in prospect could fall on the other side of the line . |
12 | Surely , it is at that age that interest has to be aroused because later those subjects will fall on the other side of the divide . |
13 | And he would sit and wait on the other side for someone to come and pick him up when he was coming home . ’ |
14 | What on earth was she supposed to wear for this evening with Dane — this evening that was n't exactly a date , yet she could think of no other description for it ? |
15 | But he could think of no other way to tackle the problem . |
16 | It was simply that he could think of no other way of prolonging her absence from him indefinitely . |
17 | It was rare for a man to shop in a grocer 's but Joe could think of no other way to see Chris Murray . |
18 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
19 | She asked for red wine and when he brought it she raised the glass and tried to think of something original and witty by way of a toast but he forestalled her by saying , ‘ Cheers , ’ and she could think of no other response . |
20 | I can think of no other person in the Anti-Apartheid Movement who knows more and is more up to date on the current situation in South Africa . |
21 | Delaney raised a critical eyebrow : His one question went to the heart of the matter , since he could think of no other reason for the involvement of G9 . |
22 | I can think of no other reason . |
23 | ’ She could think of no other reason for his appearance . |
24 | Gaily could think of no other remark . |
25 | Apart from the lightning that brings Frankenstein 's monster to life , I can think of no other appearance of physics in films that incidentally have science in them . |
26 | Children start off as self-centred little beings and they do not naturally think of the other person . |
27 | A Protestant woman , naturally , I do n't speak for the other sort . ’ |
28 | Will you send for the other gentleman ? ’ |
29 | ‘ Let's not speak of the other night , shall we ? ’ she said coolly . |
30 | Galileo defended his claim about the visibility of Jupiter 's moons by arguing that if the moons were aberrations , then moons should appear near the other planets also . |