Example sentences of "was [adv] the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it was mostly the other thing , that he 'd had to sweat all his life and she 'd never done a hand 's turn . |
| 2 | But the hatred was merely the other side of love , the element that darkened it , touching their passion with the hostility that made their lovemaking resemble fighting . |
| 3 | ‘ It was entirely the other way round . |
| 4 | ‘ I hear the constable was down the other day , if you do n't mind me saying so , ’ Mrs Clamp said , and coughed politely . |
| 5 | In his newly exalted position , Jenkins may come to choose his words more carefully , but it was only the other day that he was saying ; ‘ There is no doubt we are poor ; it 's no good pretending we are not . |
| 6 | It was only the other day that she showed them to me . |
| 7 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 8 | It came from his left , near by , and he looked there and found that Slorne was just the other side of the bars from him and she was looking at him . |
| 9 | As you face the station , he lived that side you see and er there , the room where they used to entertain their friends was just the other side of the wall the booking office , you see , and er he was such a kind man , his name was Mr |
| 10 | Most unusual — where Mark was concerned it was usually the other way round . |
| 11 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 12 | But for Maxim it was still the other way around : the landscape beyond the train window was just for show ; secretly he knew those buildings were mere façades , without interior floors , furniture or live people . |
| 13 | I think it was probably the other day because erm the wa the ducks were swimming on the road at er six o'clock just on the road near the baths |
| 14 | One umpire was up the other end , the other was too busy controlling his refractory pony to watch what Randy was up to . |
| 15 | They had to be up early on Sunday morning to get to the station to travel to the next venue which was inevitably the other side of the country . |
| 16 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 17 | How do you know it was n't the other way around ? ’ |
| 18 | So this was how the other half got sick . |
| 19 | Piggy was shown from three different angles in the book , firstly from how the writer described him , then there was how the other boys saw him and lastly how he saw himself . |
| 20 | yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the |
| 21 | Which was when the other horse got to Hullabaloo 's quarters , a big , handsome bay , his bit covered in a white froth , his nostrils wide and red , and his eye set fast on the forthcoming obstacle . |