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

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1 He unlocked the other cupboard , opened both doors and ran his finger along the top shelf .
2 He checked the other windows , knowing at the same time that it was pointless .
3 He nodded and the bookie nodded back , his eyes everywhere as he scanned the other faces , looking for takers amid the din .
4 I welcome the money that he announced the other day .
5 ‘ Is that a sauce then ? ’ he asked the other woman at the table , a fat woman in a fur coat .
6 ‘ Is this true ? ’ he asked the other man .
7 To celebrate his fortune to come , he invited the other dealers for a drink that night at the local pub .
8 He had drawn up the list of church members and he maintained the other lists too .
9 He visited the other dioceses of his province , including a tour of several days to the Isle of Man .
10 Once he visited the Other Side , as I will relate .
11 Lucien feared that if he told the other vibrancers he was working with Jeopardy , it would excite resentment among them .
12 Imagine his surprise then , when , looking more closely , he identified the other man as .
13 Still suffused with a sense of equality to the challenge that confronted him , he slipped deftly into the image he believed the other man would have of him .
14 He opened the other drawer but he knew he had n't put them in there .
15 He followed the other two into the dark shadows of the room housing the Low Countries .
16 He riffled the other warrants and put them away .
17 He returned the other three books to the trunk and replaced the mattresses .
18 He touched the other man 's arm ; at once he dropped his cup and they came towards her .
19 Perhaps even more surprising is to meet a Syrian taxi driver in Damascus describing what he heard the other day on Israel Radio .
20 Brutal it were the way he knocked the other feller about . ’
21 The school , ’ he indicated the other short side , ‘ was my grandad 's .
22 He blamed the other boy , child A for most of the violence .
23 He repeated the other details about the shipment of cocaine , as relayed to him by the mysterious informant the previous night .
24 And er of course he alerted the other two fellows and there were no fighting there was only about two little fire extinguishers on the tower .
25 He waved the other hand , drunk with terror and magic .
26 ‘ But you spoke of a threat — ’ He prompted the other gently .
27 He called the other teachers in the room and they ran after Mould as he bounced higher and higher .
28 Wilf Orton , prosecuting , said Hooker , driving at up to 50 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour limit , had been trying to over-take four slower moving vehicles when he hit the other car side on .
29 He reached the other side of the cavernous room and paused to wipe the sweat from his eyes .
30 He saw the other three French officers check their advance .
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