Example sentences of "was [verb] the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er I was watching it when it was raining the other day , you could see the rain dripping off the wood rather than soaking into it so it 's done something . |
| 2 | It 's just and it 's so , it 's like it was raining the other day when we went to go out and just could not be bothered . |
| 3 | I 'd meant her to lose control and give me an opportunity , but it was proving the other way around . |
| 4 | was snoring the other morning |
| 5 | Billy Neilson , a prominent Wear Valley councillor until last May 's Christopherian coup , was approached the other day by someone seeking to set up a small business in Sunderland . |
| 6 | ‘ Listen — you know how worried she sounded when she was interviewed the other day ? |
| 7 | Yes , it 's just a plaque and erm but The thing that erm I enjoyed on that occasion was meeting the other conservationists who 'd been called up . |
| 8 | No , the one method was to open the other file , the on the prompt file and the two files . |
| 9 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 10 | Same as labour was done the other day . |
| 11 | He was looking the other way , sorting mail . |
| 12 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 13 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 14 | Mother Francis was looking the other way . |
| 15 | Marco was looking the other way . |
| 16 | She was looking the other way and did n't see me . ’ |
| 17 | Josh liked reading comics , watching TV ( especially Dr Who ) , and peeing in his bath when his mother was looking the other way . |
| 18 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 19 | ‘ I was acting the other times , yes . ’ |
| 20 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 21 | yeah , but that one was going the other way |
| 22 | ‘ That subject also was raised the other evening . ’ |
| 23 | Europe 's laudable ambition also to become a gleaming citadel of environmental protection ( for which the European Parliament was calling the other day ) may have the same effect . |
| 24 | So sorry about your hubby 's mishap though , it must be awkward having no arms and legs at all now , I did shout for you to stop but the wind was blowing the other way . |
| 25 | Another strange point of the mystery is that the two men claimed that the smoke came out of the tunnel mouth towards the station yet a breeze was blowing the other way . |
| 26 | The speed limit on our motorways was reduced the other day , and I give a cheer for that . |
| 27 | They said he was disturbing the other pupils . |
| 28 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
| 29 | ‘ The train which was coming the other way had all its windows broken . ’ |
| 30 | so he just kept going , so the pick-up jammed its anchors on , there was a Rover it was coming the other way , the Rover went up the verge |