Example sentences of "they were [verb] [prep] each other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 2 | They were looking into each other 's face and laughing as if , Agnes thought , they were alone . |
| 3 | They were looking into each other 's eyes with a tenderness that brought her a cruel , twisting anguish . |
| 4 | They were looking to each other now anxiously . |
| 5 | They were looking at each other and touching each other in such a funny way . |
| 6 | They were looking at each other . |
| 7 | The men were in the same position , but now they were looking at each other . |
| 8 | It was as if they were clinging to each other , and they could n't let go . |
| 9 | It was like they were made for each other , she said , was n't it ? |
| 10 | Nick and she , they were proportioned to each other , they seemed to belong to the same tribe . |
| 11 | Though it is not known how the two friends met , they were corresponding with each other by 1945 , Vaughan sharing with Minton , in the immediate aftermath of war , his mood of cynical disaffection . |
| 12 | Although independent they were linked to each other . |
| 13 | Providers felt they were working against each other to capture trainees to ensure their own survival . |
| 14 | And now she could not stop talking , and he had put the book down , and they were shaking in each other 's arms , and he was kissing her , and she was kissing him , and really this would not do — they were in the embassy library , and anyone might come in , and , ‘ Dr Neil , we can not make love here ; it would not be proper , ’ she said breathlessly . |
| 15 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 16 | ‘ A British guy running 10.04 , ’ they were saying to each other . |
| 17 | She wondered what they were saying to each other . |
| 18 | They were sitting alongside each other in the half-empty aircraft before he could protest . |
| 19 | They were lying in each other 's arms . |
| 20 | I mean what we 've heard that in fact erm they had met in prison , but was that known to you at that time or simply that they were known to each other and that had a record ? |
| 21 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 22 | They were trapped in each other 's company , each one wanting to break away , to do anything rather than stay there together , but none of them would risk being thought unfeeling , or odd . |
| 23 | They were laughing into each other 's faces at some private joke ; they had n't seen me . |
| 24 | She had turned to him now and they were staring at each other . |
| 25 | They were staring into each other 's eyes now , both mouths agape . |