Example sentences of "the others [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 She regularly employs her grandmother , ‘ who 's the best seamstress I 'll ever find — she teaches all the others to sew beautifully ’ , and , after school , a 14-year-old girl who is already showing great design ability .
2 He forces all the others to live in a sandpit of their own digging .
3 He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands .
4 Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures .
5 When the tocsin sounded I lurched out with the others to see what was wrong .
6 My decision not to eat had been made on the spur of the moment and was based not , as I well knew , on the terrible beating , but on the pointless cruelty of not allowing the others to go to the bathroom .
7 Some misunderstanding arises about the overlap during the afternoon period , because within this period one group of staff will have to take lunch when the afternoon shift arrive on duty and the others to take tea before the early shift goes off duty .
8 It 's hardly surprising , then , that when a person walks through a prairie dog colony , one or more animals will give the alarm call , causing the others to take to their burrows .
9 Continued refusal would justify discharging those patients fit enough to be moved and with somewhere to go , and forcing the others to submit .
10 Kendall has dismissed him , but Everton might be better off re-educating the others to give him the service he thrives on .
11 I know they 're asking more than we want to pay , but if we can assemble a package of cash , stock options , and newly issued shares as a good inducement , I think we 'll convince the key manager and he 'll persuade the others to sell .
12 The senior men returned to the embassy , Seymour to liaise with Scotland Yard on progress on what had now become two searches instead of one , the others to wait and listen .
13 But Smart Move was fast and clear , leaving the others to chase his time in vain .
14 They let it be known around school that they were collecting waste paper and asked the others to do the same so they could weigh it all in .
15 Then encourage the others to do the same ; in most two-storey homes you may well be able to catch ‘ suspended ’ children in your arms .
16 It 's too easy for the others to put a gun to his head . ’
17 They were both marking , which they should n't have been … fairclough should have taken goodman out of the game … leaving one of the others to clean up .
18 Next day I am taken to Höfn to catch a plane back to Reykjavik , leaving the others to continue to Mÿvatn and the north .
19 At the close of the evening , he left slightly before the others to return home .
20 He moved the case to one side , rolled back the carpet and told the others to sit by the bookcase .
21 One girl stopped the others to ask advice about how to write down the ghostly sound of a door opening .
22 The disembarkation began immediately , and I took the opportunity of a run ashore with the others to survey our unique landfall .
23 I reckon we can come up with our own rules , pilfered from all of the others to suit our needs .
24 Mr Lamont will order the others to fall into line .
25 He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up .
26 Pistol in hand , she paused just long enough for the others to catch up , and handed the goggles to Benny , deciding she 'd probably better play it safe and not risk letting any of the inhabitants of 1915 get an idea of how they worked .
27 She moved through the conical root-system of cables which formed the Bridge 's anchor , down towards the centre of the depression , and waited for the others to catch up .
28 ‘ He does n't want the others to catch sight of you , ’ said Ken .
29 She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age .
30 We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’
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