Example sentences of "other a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We gave each other a long hug . |
| 2 | His two profoundly moving ballets , Gloria and Requiem , the one a poem for lost youth and hope through the onset of war and the other a song of mourning and praise for a departed friend , stand and fall by theaudience 's response to their message and not to the pre-eminence of a star . |
| 3 | Then at least two programme trades , one a buy and sell mix and the other a buy exercise , steadied the market . |
| 4 | Here were two future leaders of the Church of England , the one a man of supreme common sense , the other a mystic ; the one a conservative and establishment-man , the other a liberal and a reformer — they were fated never to understand each other . |
| 5 | When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios . |
| 6 | put it in the shop window in New York on St Patrick 's Day along with forty shades of green paperweights , the lacquered shillelaghs , and the wonderful world of deedeelee eedeelee eedeelee Irishness ; skipping dancing jolly little leprechauns in bright buckled shoes and battered hatted bow legged bright red drunken faced gombeen men with little devils in their laughing Irish eyes , mischievous gossipy white haired old women with shawls , pure white skinned colleens skipping carefree through green fields dutifully ready to return in an instant to domestic chores , strapping athletic lads with fine belts and sturdy boots ever willing to put in a fair day 's work or hit each other a clout . |
| 7 | He had never had a dog and now that one of his daughters was married and the other a student at drama school , he saw no reason why he should ever give one house-room . |
| 8 | Each generation contains two quarks and two leptons , of which one is an electron or something like it and the other a neutrino . |
| 9 | Just as well they have something else in common : they have known each other a long time , and are all good friends . |
| 10 | But why is one a ‘ mode ’ , and the other a ‘ substance ’ ? |
| 11 | But presumably they ran back to the bluegums , carrying in one arm a pair of trousers and in the other a fishing rod . |
| 12 | One puppet was a priest , and the other a penitent : |
| 13 | In one hand Emily had a glass with half an inch of darkish liquid in the bottom , and in the other a plate of shortbread biscuits . |
| 14 | Shrewsbury , the Sorbonne and Pembroke College , Oxford , enabled me , or so I thought , to pass for white , although of my grandfathers one had been a railwayman on the London and Northwestern and the other a clerk in Bristol Gas Works . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's give each other a chance . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 've only known each other a year . ’ |
| 17 | The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour . |
| 18 | His wife had died just over a year earlier ; one of his daughters was a teacher in Tel Aviv , the other a painter , and Shlomo Green was himself a sculptor of some distinction . |
| 19 | She carries under one arm her folder of lecture notes , and under the other a bundle of books from which to read illustrative quotations . |
| 20 | Too many couples do n't make each other a priority ; work , kids , everything else comes first . |
| 21 | The men in the Toms family support each other a great deal ; none of them show any disapproval of Sandy 's lifestyle . |
| 22 | All this was foreshadowed at the height of the war and in the heart of the Fens by the testimonies of two passionate and knowledgeable countrymen , one a bird-watcher , the other a farmer . |
| 23 | and before them a knight of great stature upon a white horse with a bloody cross , who bore in one hand a white banner , and in the other a sword which seemed to be of fire , and he made a great mortality among the Moors who were flying . |
| 24 | At their first meetings in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 each had at once recognized in the other a man of extraordinary abilities . |
| 25 | One of the Luftwaffe men was an officer and the other a Feldwebel . |
| 26 | Normally one of these materials is a semiconductor and the other a metal . |
| 27 | The craft would also relay two new channels , one run by a commercial organisation and the other a subscription service that TDF would run . |
| 28 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 29 | Although we certainly want to give each other a basis for anticipation , nothing could be more boring than having sex scheduled for every Tuesday night . |
| 30 | In this time of cuts , and insecurity , is it not time that local authorities lost their insular image , approached their neighbours , exchanged ideas , pooled resources , and generally helped each other a lot more ? |