Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the other " in BNC.

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1 And if he lived on the other side of the world she would think nothing of flying to meet him , she said .
2 He winked at the other man who was watching Oliver sullenly .
3 The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn .
4 Crouching again , he moved to the other side of the cabinet and repeated the same manoeuvre , craning his head to look out .
5 There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit .
6 Then he charged to the other end to anticipate a precise through ball from McMahon and reach it just before the advancing Lukic and flick it into the empty net .
7 Now that we know what it means , will the Prime Minister reflect on the ’ double whammy ’ that he received from the other place on the Education ( Schools ) Bill last night ?
8 He gestured to the other rod .
9 ‘ The boxes , ’ he gestured to the other two sides of the yard , ‘ have always been here .
10 He turned to the other staff officers who were crowding into the room .
11 and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it .
12 He turned to the other characteristically skeletal bronze .
13 Then he turned to the other children and clapped his hands once more .
14 ‘ Get her off me , he bellowed at the other grooms .
15 He was muscular , athletic , good-looking and his folks were rich enough ; he scared off the other guys .
16 He walked on the other side of the road .
17 He glanced at the other table .
18 He padded past the other cell doors and reached the door at the end of the corridor — massive , clenched together with square-headed nails .
19 Then he bowed to the other lady .
20 And he leapt to the other side of the road pretending to be terribly frightened , to such an extent that he thoroughly convinced himself that he was !
21 He waved at the other armchair .
22 There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man .
23 He crossed to the other window .
24 He went along the other gallery up to the second floor and his own room . ’
25 He looked at the other things on Philip 's wall , the pictures from the nature calendar , the photograph of Uncle Walter 's brother , his Uncle John with his platoon in the War .
26 He looked at the other men in the room , his eyes resting on his father .
27 He looked at the other screens : each provided a different perspective of the same scene .
28 He looked at the other two men .
29 He looked for the other two aircraft .
30 He smiled at the other man , then smiled at Beth , then at Cissie who , struck with horror at the thin man 's strikingly unpleasant face , pressed herself closer to Beth .
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