Example sentences of "they [prep] the other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall .
2 Nothing , other than ownership and the secret garden , appears to distinguish them from the other tenants around them .
3 But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps .
4 In deciding whether to begin or continue litigation , one major factor is whether a party will have to pay the costs or be able to recover them from the other party .
5 They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side : anyone could unlock them from the other side .
6 The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street .
7 Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side .
8 Place a sausage on each of the remaining cocktail sticks and put them in the other orange .
9 She kept them in the other day because she sa , erm or something need to keep the , we think it was them anyway with Mrs kept one group in cos erm , she said that someone had nicked off with her pen or something and it was underneath the desk , it had rolled off the desk !
10 These should be used to prove the technology , with a view to introducing them in the other gardens between 1995 and 1997 .
11 Lock them in the other room .
12 But they ca n't turn them round the other way !
13 But they ca n't turn them round the other way !
14 A van passed them on the other carriageway .
15 The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " .
16 Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side .
17 The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road .
18 For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side .
19 The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side .
20 ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side .
21 That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side .
22 There was one of them on the other side of the street .
23 There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane .
24 If given three or more parameters as input , it can hold all but two constant and discover a law relating these two ; then treat the constants ( c , k ) within this law as new parameters , and relate them to the other inputs .
25 But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story .
26 The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them .
27 you never see them across the other side
28 It 's generally the other way round ; lass ; it 's them at the other end of the Feltons ' fists who generally land up here .
29 I could n't convince them at the other end that I needed an ambulance because I was outside the hospital .
30 ‘ We got the two goals back , but you have to stop them at the other end as well .
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