Example sentences of "on [det] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conferred temporary and somewhat metaphysical diplomatic immunity by the embrace , the would-be emigrant and the diplomat walked , with their arms on each others ' shoulders , into the embassy . |
| 2 | Arabian oryx also lick the dew that may accumulate on rocks and on each others ' hair , as the humid air from the Arabian Sea rolls in at night . |
| 3 | Duncan briefed us on what was to take place and we staggered backwards into the harbour , barking like seals and standing on each others fins . |
| 4 | Farnborough and Crystal Palace , the two skate centres of southern skating , hold friendly comps on each others ramps for the ‘ Whip Lash ’ trophy , Danny Wins . |
| 5 | ‘ Chubby ’ Eliot and self had a bit of a dogfight for a while trying to get on each others ' tails as we were not certain the other was not a 109 until we saw the roundels . ’ |
| 6 | creating opportunities and providing conditions in which teachers can spend more time working together , sharing problems , commenting on each others ' performance , and collaborating in curriculum planning . |
| 7 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |
| 8 | One can visualise these gentlemen each with a candle or dim lantern , perhaps totally unused to situations like that , climbing fearfully up the ladders , hard on each others heels , taking comfort from the nearness of each other and climbing awkwardly with the lights they carried which would cast but a feeble glow about them . |
| 9 | Under the terms of the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty , the signatories — NATO and former Warsaw Pact states — have the right to conduct inspections on each others territory . |
| 10 | Jay giggled along with him , they cried on each other 's shoulders and , every week or so over cocktails , swore to marry each other . |
| 11 | If you and the opponent land scoring techniques on each other at precisely the same time , then neither score will be given . |
| 12 | He read several papers before the society and his published works include observations on the laws of electricity , the height to which rockets can be fired and the influence which two pendulum clocks , in close proximity , were seen to have on each other . |
| 13 | It is high time to abandon that caricature , too long perpetuated by dictionary definitions such as the one you quote from Chambers , both for the sake of historical justice and because , in the present as in the past , anti-Pharisaism and anti-Judaism have a nasty way of feeding on each other . |
| 14 | Anti-Philistinism and anti-Arab sentiment may have a nasty way of feeding on each other . |
| 15 | We can say that the relationship between marriage system and terminology is itself highly variable and so too is the way they interact on each other . |
| 16 | In these three areas there is a clear development in the various works considered in the previous chapters , and these different studied build on each other . |
| 17 | Equally , her study was the first to find that chimpanzees wage war on each other , hunt and eat other animals , and even turn murderously on their own kind . |
| 18 | Although many of the massage techniques in this illustrated guide are for two people to practise on each other , as you can clearly see from the simple techniques over the page , massage is something that you can successfully achieve alone . |
| 19 | Territorial disputes give rise to elaborate tournaments in which workers extend their legs to walk on stilts and drum their antennae on each other 's abdomens . |
| 20 | But that will make AT&T 's service and equipment-manufacturing businesses step on each other 's toes again . |
| 21 | The self-discipline and lessened dependence on each other that Helen had hoped for had had some effect on Edward , as his first letter to Helen from his Oxford lodgings shows : |
| 22 | Because observable substances consist of arrangements of insensible corpuscles , they are able to act on each other and on our sense-organs in certain ways . |
| 23 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 24 | The whole pretence about his future plans does not belong to relations between brothers , especially brothers who have just wept on each other 's shoulders , and who have shown each other such surprising willingness for reunion . |
| 25 | Jostling , raspberrying and treading on each other 's toes , they crowded round their officer to hear what he had to say . |
| 26 | At least he and Ari get off on each other . |
| 27 | I have a feeling now , as if I 'm walking around with a sign on my back saying ‘ Kick me ’ , or ‘ I 'm a prat ’ , the sort of horrible joke kids play on each other , because I feel as though that 's exactly how people treat me . |
| 28 | The families of North Tynedale in westernmost Northumberland — Charltons and Robsons , Milburns and Dodds — were never slow to lay hands on each other 's property in the lawless old days . |
| 29 | Yet since January he has faced four different boats fielded by Koch — first Jayhawk , then Defiant and , more recently , America and Kanza — all reported to be an improvement on each other , at a cost to the America Foundation of some £38.25 million . |
| 30 | This tended to give a certain bias to the work likely to be found in schools , especially as the coterie of advisers who knew each other 's work well , often teaching on each other 's courses and jointly helping to tutor the national D.E.S . |