Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I put the suitcase down on the other bed and began packing the contents of the drawers into it .
2 to get down on the other platform and to wave ,
3 Tossing his case over the top of it , he scrambled up and dropped lightly down on the other side .
4 Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers .
5 She sat down on the other side of the desk .
6 Masklin ran over the shoe , jumped down on the other side , and ran on .
7 A hundred yards down on the other side of the road a knot of men were gathered .
8 ‘ I 've a hunch , ’ he said , putting the heavy volume down on the other side of the board to the knives and the water .
9 By the light of the fires he could see Paul already sitting cross-legged on a buffalo skin by the pholy , and he sank gratefully down on the other side of him .
10 She dropped down on the other side of the sweetheart plant from Rain , bowed her head , rested her right hand lightly on the keys , shut her eyes tight and concentrated .
11 She preferred the additional wearisome walk , half an hour up and half an hour back down on the other side , to bothering one of these absorbed people .
12 Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer .
13 He grunted by way of greeting as the fat widow dumped herself down on the other chair , but did not raise his eyes from his reading .
14 Peskova stepped over the woman and brought the heavy stone down on the other arm .
15 The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’
16 The canoes had to be carried across and put in on the other side of the dam , then we were given , mini lesson on the art of canoeing in swift water .
17 When you come to doing along on the other side make sure they 're beautiful parallel
18 I mean they , people er , the hairdresser 's for instance , they seemed to be there for evermore at the far end , towards I mean er , er , and then there was half way along on the other side and
19 I was standing there talking to him , and over on the other side of Lime Street , the station side , there was another mackintosh shop and they had ten shilling notes pasted in the window .
20 No , just the same machine we had over on the other side , aye , it has n't changed at all .
21 Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods .
22 Over on the other side , erm you 're given a range name .
23 Look , you can see St Thomas 's over on the other side now — ’ They were climbing a fairly steep mound .
24 Over on the other side of the High Street , Saddam Hussein had straightened up .
25 Somewhere , over on the other side of the Common , a truck moved up from below the hill and , headlights hooded , started across towards Parkside .
26 Over on the other side of the Gulf , Iran had its share of misfortune when an earthquake struck the region containing the key oilfield of Gach Saran .
27 I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room .
28 The others seem to have stood up quite well over on the other side .
29 But she wondered uneasily how long it would be before Tom himself finished with his patient over on the other ward and came back here .
30 Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family .
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