Example sentences of "on [prep] the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went on about the other woman , how she looked and what she was like in bed . |
| 2 | How are things going on from the other point of view ? |
| 3 | It 's very helpful for both sides of the community , I 'm sure , to have contact like this and I think that the programme is usually very well devised in that you do have something either of mutual interest or one area and then the other area so that we can be informed about erm what 's going on in the other section of the community . |
| 4 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 5 | come on in the other room Michael , right , now you 've got your dummy |
| 6 | They may share their syringes and if one of them has HIV , the needle will become infected and the virus could be passed on to the other person . |
| 7 | If one of these people has HIV , it may be passed on to the other person . |
| 8 | She could go on to the other station but she says I enjoy being in so much I use it . |
| 9 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 10 | The big cat started to swing on to the other tack but a swell caught her bow , slamming her back . |
| 11 | The catamaran shook its bows against the swell , then she was through the wind and on to the other tack with the sails drawing sweetly . |
| 12 | When I returned to the palace with my boxes , I was able to stand on one box on one side of the wall and step on to the other box on the other side . |
| 13 | He held on to the other end , it went underneath him . |
| 14 | Then I realized he was n't stopping outside Sunil 's house , but carrying on to the other end of the road . |
| 15 | Fortunately one of the good points about losing the seven stroke nine business is that Pauline transferred some of the stock of that seven stroke nine bearing on to the other end . |
| 16 | Sex is an animal quality which must somehow he pushed on to the other side of the great divide . |
| 17 | Yussuf was pitched off on to the other side . |
| 18 | The Peugeot was pushed on to the other side of the road and was in collision with a Sierra driven by Leslie Green , of Runcorn , Cheshire , who was travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | He sailed past the President 's beach house before coming over on to the other track . |
| 20 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |
| 21 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 22 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 23 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |