Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [det] other [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'd make anything go , ’ the girl said , a second after reading a paragraph on the front page of Variety about two big London managements — no mention of him — that were bidding against each other for the show . |
| 2 | Thus from mid-1962 the Soviet Union and Cuba were committed to each other to an extent which made it extremely difficult for either party to renounce the relationship . |
| 3 | Circle members were looking at each other with slowly dawning horror and suspicion . |
| 4 | Dad had turned away , and Mum and Mrs Fry were looking at each other like conspirators . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 6 | But the other two Palestinians were shouting at each other in Hebrew . |
| 7 | There has been racing at York since roman times when horses were matched against each other about a mile to the north of the city . |
| 8 | The latter two did not appear to be speaking to each other , and Sid and Algernon were prowling round each other like lean and hungry panthers waiting for an opportunity to strike . |
| 9 | Carolyn and Diana were drawn to each other from the start because they were among the only pupils whose parents were divorced . |
| 10 | Now , everything had changed , and their bodies were moving round each other in the orange light of the dance court . |
| 11 | Keols , invisible in the forest canopy , were calling to each other in their incessant woody voices . |
| 12 | Bowe 's margin of victory was so clear that when he and Holyfield were dragged off each other at the final bell , there was none of the tension that normally accumulates during the counting of the score card . |
| 13 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 14 | The couple , who were introduced to each other by one of Mr Jefferson 's relatives in 1940 , were married two years later at the Holy Trinity Church in Darlington . |
| 15 | FitzAlan and de Villiers were glaring at each other across her , but as she made a move to sit up Isabel saw the scowl fade from Simon 's face and he reached down a hand to steady her . |
| 16 | In 1852 , two whaling ships , the Monongahela and the Rebecca Sins , from New Bedford ( see map on right ) , were sailing alongside each other in the Pacific . |
| 17 | Their eyes were fixed on each other in cold fury , their hands placed on the table , palms down , and they seemed to be waiting — waiting for |
| 18 | The process of confession , contrition and restitution was originally instituted as a public act through which individual members of society were reconciled to each other in that social harmony signified by the kiss of peace at the Mass which was the condition for the reception of Christ at the eucharist . |
| 19 | The Securitate and the KGB were falling over each other at that point . |
| 20 | Early sexual relationships and lack of care were associated with each other in increasing the risk of depression . |
| 21 | telephone conversation took place , as if two deaf people were talking to each other on a rowdy main road , but fragments of conversation filtered through as Frau Nordern repeated what Karl , presumably , was saying . |
| 22 | And I 'm only putting Helena and Emma were talking to each other on the bus . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They were sitting alongside each other in the half-empty aircraft before he could protest . |
| 25 | The family came to be seen as a refuge from a harsh world in which men were pitted against each other in merciless competition . |
| 26 | Of course the two regimes , of legacy and trust , were assimilated to each other in certain relatively minor respects ; but Gaius was still able in the mid-second century to state that there were many differences between legacies and trusts ( multum autem differunt ) , and this was after the rules on capacity had finally been brought into line by Hadrian . |
| 27 | Hope and fear were tripping over each other inside her . |
| 28 | Claudia could have warned him to beware of Roman when that note entered his voice but Dana and Garry were smiling at each other in mutual satisfaction . |
| 29 | ‘ It had been bloody hard because we were sleeping with each other from very early on but we had always agreed not to get physical because I knew we should n't , ’ he said . |