Example sentences of "other [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I believe that Stalin was paranoid about other people in the Soviet Union rising up and overthrowing him , so by bumping off Kirov and blaming on them , he effectively gave himself a licence to go out and kill all other them as revenge . |
2 | It was in A flat , and we 'd done two or three cuts on it , but on this particular cut I just got absolutely bonkers , just got lost , but somehow or other I came out of it and that 's the one Elvis picked . |
3 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
4 | Somehow or other I managed to learn these lessons , becoming anxious to please and to be praised for having pleased . |
5 | ONCE or twice a year in some television studio or other I find myself bumping into Lord Parkinson . |
6 | I know next to nothing about wild flowers , and what little I do know I learnt largely when I was a pink-kneed " Boy Sprout " in Manchester and in order to pass some badge or other I had to be able to burn some dough on a stick over an open fire , make smoky porridge and recognise six kinds of trees and flowers from their leaves and blossoms . |
7 | Somehow or other I manage to get through and I think it 's because my parents help me . |
8 | . When I when I when I finished from papers and er started w other I went into in a into er 's bottle washing . |
9 | Now it affects all the joints as well but somehow or other I felt that that was the thing that stuck in my mind from seeing him . |
10 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
11 | ‘ Somehow or other I had been placed near the King . |
12 | but other I 'm in control . |
13 | Well , that 's all very well but there is one other I would like to add to the list and put it near the top — Downpatrick , who have been battling on their own for years , and who still manage to attract huge crowds as they showed last Monday . |
14 | No , and somewhere or other I have got for you a copy of the long string the long you know ? |
15 | was good as that other I used to get , and yet it was a lot more expensive ! |
16 | but erm like Vicky who 's got , in her English folder , this is Vicky Vicky , she 's got in her literature she 's got nine A's and one B and in her other I do n't know what she 's got , ten A's probably , mm she 's not going to , she wants to be a nurse |
17 | Vernon somebody or other I think his name was . |
18 | And if they do n't , somehow or other you have to develop that confidence for yourself . |
19 | There was tremendous energy bottled up in there with nowhere to go , and somehow or other you were able to shoot that energy out through your eyes and make objects move . |
20 | Er in use of other you should have the difference in survival between the patients that had more than twenty one or less than twenty one but actually it er you did n't show us the survival curves for |
21 | But er other you ca n't do everything i o that so it can er |
22 | Some time or other you hear that court bell ringing do n't you ? |
23 | And er in some way or other you know , not always in the same position but I 'd always er had something to do with it . |
24 | He went and p pushed me in somehow or other you know . |
25 | ‘ This other you , with all the credit facilities . |
26 | E even so she has to pay the first something or other you , as one does in a claim |
27 | Oh , all the other you know . |
28 | So some how or other you 've got put little bit of oil or something on it . |
29 | I I 'm , this does n't seem to me , a very intelligent way , I I , somehow or other you 've got to get the parents , win them to behave properly towards the children without the threat of a heavy fine on their head . |
30 | And in this last bottle bank , it used to say up there green , clear , brown and other you see . |